While at Kabanana this summer working with the kids, I would always look into this empty room that was across from my classroom. I kept thinking, I can’t wait until the day it is filled with smiling faces which would mean that more kids had been sponsored.
Teacher Dorothy took some cardboard boxes that supplies were delivered in and turned it into a bookshelf. (If someone had asked me to do that, I would have told them they were crazy. You can’t make a bookshelf out of cardboard boxes)
One thing I admire about Teacher Dorothy is that where there is a will, there is a way and she wanted that empty room to be turned into a library. Over a week or two she transformed that barren room into something that brought tears to my eyes. Look closely at the pictures and you can see the details that she put into it to make even the shelf to look more colorful. The “table” is an old door that had broken off of one of the classrooms.
1. Donate directly to this project through Family Legacy: https://donate.familylegacy.com/lcabooks
2. Buy books at the BPES bookfair or donate money to “All For Books“ that will be used to purchase books.
I am so excited to see the way that God is going to move at my school to collect books. We are going to have 15 copies of 10 different books available at the book fair during the week of October 8, for kids to purchase. Every year at the book fair, Mrs. Pratt participates in a program through the scholastic book fair called “All For Books” where the kids can donate money and scholastic matches that amount of money and gives to organizations/schools that are in need. The money we collect will be put toward purchasing books that will go to Zambia. Please pray with me that all of the books will be purchased and that we can use the money that is collected to purchase additional titles above and beyond the ten that will be available for purchase.
We have a visiting author coming to our school next week and he has graciously agreed to donate 15 copies of one of his books: Humpty Dumpty After the Fall. I am so excited to see God's hand already moving!!
I know that God is going to be faithful in bringing in all the money needed to purchase what the schools are lacking and that He will be faithful to make the book fair a HUGE success in the donation of books for Africa.