News from Overseas

Today we received an email from Marcus H., a Peace Corps volunteer to whom we sent two boxes of books for a new trilingual library established by the Peace Association of Sidi Allal Bahraoui.

Hello Tanya and Kathy,

As promised, here are a few pictures of people with the books. I invited a few of my students to come to the library and check out some of the books that you sent. They loved them. I had planned on having a picture with a big thank you sign but was unable to because of lack of time and because banners are really expensive here and the association is currently running low on cash.

I really apologize for the delay. It's Ramadan, which means that things move really slowly and people tend to stay in their houses because they're so hungry and thirsty.

Once again, thanks so much for your generosity. I really can't convey how grateful the association, my students and I are.

Best,

Marcus

Thanks for the wonderful pictures, Marcus!

We are getting more boxes of books soon and are planning a sorting day next Sunday. There's much to be done on the Bookaneers agenda!

Blown Out Of The Water!

WE'VE BROKEN OUR 1500 GOAL AFTER MERE MONTHS!!! THANKS SO MUCH TO ALL WHO HAVE HELPED US ALONG THE WAY...AND YOU CAN BE SURE THERE'S MORE TO COME! LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET OUR NEXT THOUSAND BOOKS IN RECORD TIME!

Today the Nguyens were ecstatic to gather 132 books generously donated by Mr. G and the science department -- much appreciation to Katie B. for getting them together for us! This is nowhere near the end of our journey, and we have a lot of work to do! We have new ideas we can't wait to launch, so please join the club if you want to get involved.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HAS HELPED THE BOOKANEERS CAMPAIGN; YOUR EFFORTS ARE TRULY APPRECIATED.
And we're really not just saying that!

Rocking the Boat

Thanks to all who came in the morning and/or helped out at Club Fair!

We had one of our yearbook pictures taken with our display board this morning. Kate P. brought in a nice load of youth books. We had a strong success at Club Fair during all 3 lunch periods, with all but 3 of our flyers taken and an extensive list of names of interested people made. Way to go!

Almost to Port!

If you'll take a look at our thermometer, you'll notice that we are ALMOST THERE in reaching our 1500 book goal! Whoever donates the 1500th book gets a special prize...haha. But by no means does that mean we'll stop -- it's full steam ahead for us!

Today, we received 13 books from Beta Club, so thanks to Kelsey B. for putting the book drive on the Beta agenda and sponsor Ms. Benda for helping us with that.

We'll be covered in the yearbook! Sandrine N. is in charge of taking pictures for us, and we plan to have the first one on Club Fair day, Wednesday, September 10th with an awesome Bookaneers display board. Please stop by our table then!

Also, PLEASE let us know if you know of any place that will take donations of adult age audience books. Please ask around if anyone knows of perhaps a rural or needy library, or a senior center that would make good use of the books. Thanks!