Posted by logan on 19 May 2010
Our pace of updating this blog has slowed recently, but exciting news is on the way! We have been focusing on a site-wide redesign to help our visitors engage in our work in more ways (beyond just donating), and to feature a very special project that our bibliophile fans will love (especially students or parents of students). You can subscribe to our mailing list to be notified when the new site is online. Meanwhile, we are getting ready to launch a library project at an AIDS orphanage in Ghana, so stay tuned for details if you would like to help provide books for some very needy children.
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Posted by logan on 17 Dec 2009
For just $2 you can make a tangible and long-lasting difference in the lives of thousands of Darfuri refugees. For $2 you can fund one of the 5,000 bricks we need to build a library in a refugee camp in Chad. Whether you give one brick or one hundred, you will be making a real difference. Please visit our new library builder site to participate. You can leave a message for the public and donate in honor of your favorite author or a special book lover in your life. Tell your friends and, together, we can make it to 5,000 and build a library.
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Posted by logan on 24 Jun 2009
Major news from eastern Chad! Our shipment of 1,750 pairs of reading glasses has reached Bredjing Refugee Camp! This despite an attempted carjacking on May 26 en route from Hadjer Hadid to Abeche, Chad, which our partner CORD's drivers narrowly escaped. With shots fired at point blank range, it is fair to say that the brave aid workers have risked their lives in delivering the glasses to the refugees. We are tremendously thankful that they were not harmed, and inspired by the incredible photos below of the glasses being distributed.
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Posted by logan on 9 Jan 2010
Avalon Press, a publisher in the UK, is supporting our campaign to build a refugee camp library for 20,000-30,000 Darfuris by donating for every order they receive for Larry Kuechlin's book of poetry, "Along a Ruined Sea." For orders made directly through their website through February 6, Avalon Press will donate two bricks to help build the library, one in the purchaser's name and a matching brick from themselves. For poetry lovers, this could be a great opportunity to help some of the world's neediest readers. Click here to order directly from Avalon Press, or here to read more about "Along a Ruined Sea." Thanks, Avalon Press, for helping us build a library for refugees!
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Posted by logan on 14 Dec 2009
About 2,000 Darfuris are now enrolled in refugee-organized English classes in three refugee camps in eastern Chad, nearly double the number from a year ago. The classes have grown dramatically, from an initial 400, since we started supporting the refugees with Headway ESL textbooks from Oxford University Press. See video from the classes below and learn about our plans to expand this highly successful program.
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Posted by logan on 30 Nov 2009
Video below. Our quest for portable, rugged, solar-rechargeable lighting for refugee camp and village classrooms in Chad is down to a two-light showdown. The two contenders are 1) a new lighting system designed in partnership with electronics manufacturer AltusLumen and 2) the winner of our prior field tests of off-the-shelf equipment, the SOLUX-LED-50.
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Posted by logan on 27 Sep 2009
Watch videos below. To help demonstrate the impact our donors are having, and to show what is really happening in education in the refugee camps in eastern Chad, we sent a Flip camcorder and memory stick to our field partner CORD. The many videos that came back far exceed our expectations, and we'll be sharing them gradually over the next several weeks.
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Posted by logan on 30 Jun 2009
You can now help Book Wish whenever you buy books online, and we'll help you find the lowest prices in return. Just start all your book shopping at bibliotarian.org, our new fast book price comparison service. Bibliotarian can find you the lowest prices from Amazon, AbeBooks, Alibris, Half.com, etc., and we (and, optionally, another charity of your choice) can benefit from the affiliate revenue provided by the bookseller. It's a win-win situation.
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Posted by logan on 26 Jun 2009
If you donated to provide English textbooks for refugee-organized English classes in eastern Chad, or if you are considering supporting the English classes, here is a photo you should see. Taken in May 2009, it shows several hundred of the English students from Bredjing Refugee Camp. These are some of the Darfuris we are directly helping.
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