Camel book drive
Kenya’s mobile camel-borne library is holding a book drive. This is a great opportunity to send off some of your extra books and support a good cause in the process.
Though The Camel Bookmobile (HarperCollins, April 2007) is a novel, the camel-borne library actually exists. It operates from Garissa in Kenya’s isolated Northeastern Province near the unstable border with Somalia. It brings books to a semi-nomadic people who live with drought, famine and chonic poverty. The books are spread out on grass mats beneath an acacia tree, and the library patrons, often barefoot, sometimes joined by goats or donkeys, gather with great excitement to choose their books until the next visit.
But of course, the bush is hard on books and the traveling library needs more.
What can you do to help?
BOOKS FOR THE CAMEL BOOKMOBILE can be mailed to:
Garissa Provincial Library
For Camel Library
Librarian in Charge, Rashid M. Farah
P.O. Box 245
Garissa, KenyaPostage, economy, on a 5-pound box from the U.S. to Kenya is $23. Sending a 10-pound box is $33.75, and a 15-pound box costs $41.10. For a 25-pound box, the cost is $55.05.
Link (via Neil Gaiman’s journal)
