As promised in our last report we said we update everyone on this delivery when we had more news. We are pleased to say the books have now been distributed. In the photos above the local MP can be seen handing over the donations to the various heads of the schools receiving the books. The schools are still very short of books in Science, Maths and
As mentioned in our last newsletter we said that the Sri Lankan delivery was being delivered to various schools and organisations. We have now received a thank you letter from one of these organisations: Uduvil Public Library. This quote from a thank you letter illustrates how important and how well appreciated these deliveries are. "They will be a valued addition to our newly expanded Children Library
It has taken a lot of time and effort but finally, our shipment to SriLanka, which arrived in December, has been distributed to various schools and organisations in the country. As usual, the recipients are very grateful for the donations and hope that we can send more in the future.
We are pleased to announce that Our Zimbabwe shipment arrived safely in Bulawayo and was unloaded on the 17th of February. These deliveries are very welcome as shown by this extract from the thank you: "Once again thank you very much to Books Abroad and all its partners for the wonderful consignment of books that has so much potential in alleviating poverty through education." Ziphathele Ncube
We are delighted to announce that our chairperson Vinay Ruparelia has been awarded an MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list. Vinay was awarded the MBE for services to local enterprise, tourism and to the community. As well as all his work for Books Abroad, Vinay is heavily involved in many other charities and local organisations such as Turning Point, Portsoy Boat Festival, Boyndie Trust
Our container for Sri Lanka arrived there safely on December 26th. We will provide more details on this later.
Here is an update on what has been happening recently and some of our upcoming plans. We will give you more detailed news on these shipments at a later date. Our Sri Lankan container is due to arrive in Colombo at Christmas after delays at Rotterdam and our Zimbabwe container is due to arrive in late January 2021. Volunteers are now packing for our Caribbean container
Lorna Bell one of our Trustees has been working with Chapel of Garioch Tea room and re-purposed an old red telephone box into a mini library for their area. More details to follow when this is up and running. Books Abroad volunteers will stock it up with books in the near future. Users can then make a donation in our collection can when the café is
On the 9th November, we have planned for our next container shipment to Zimbabwe to begin its journey. This container is expected to arrive in Zimbabwe in the middle of January 2021. We are back to using our standard size pallets so 30 boxes can fit on instead of 24 on a Euro sized pallet. The pallets will be distributed to various schools in the Bulawayo
We are pleased to announce that at long last our shipment of books for Sri Lanka is on its way. We had it ready for dispatch in early 2020 but local elections in Sri Lanka and then the onset of Covid-19 delayed the shipment. Various sizes of pallets had to be used this time which caused a lot of extra work for our volunteers but they