Wanted: Used Children’s Books
 
For Mmakgori Primary School in Mmakgori, Botswana
African Library Book Drive At Skyland Church
Donate Books from October through November 15
The African Library Project creates libraries in Africa by partnering US book drives with a school or community in Africa. The Skyland book drive, here in the Santa Cruz Mountains, will donate 1,000 used children’s books and the necessary $500 to send the books to Africa. The African partner school provides a building or room, shelves, furniture and a teacher-librarian. Our book drive has been partnered in Botswana with Mmakgori Primary School in Mmakgori, Botswana.  Mmakgori Primary School serves 179 students in grades 1-7 and has 10 teachers. It is exciting to realize that these children in Botswana will be reading our gently used books in their first library next year!
 
On         October 12, 6:30PM-8:30PM
 
Join us     Exhibition of Photos from Botswana and Lesotho with life
        stories & DVD: House of Books: In Their Own Words
 
At        Whitaker Hall next to Skyland Church
        25100 Skyland Road, Los Gatos, CA
Admission: One or more gently used children’s book + 50 cents to ship the book
 
Appropriate Books for pre-K through 4th grade readers
Paperbacks Preferred!
 
  1. •BRING: Baby board books
  2. • Children's picture books
  3. • Children's fiction and non-fiction
  4. • Early readers
  5. • Juvenile literature
  6. • Teacher books for school libraries
  7. • Children's dictionaries
  8. •Children's encyclopedias
  9. •Accurate atlases
  10. •Paperback textbooks in math, English, geography and science at the appropriate level
  11. •Books with universal themes (friendship, animals, love, etc.)
For more information go to www.africanlibraryproject.org
For donated book questions email: anne_evans@verizon.net