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		<title>Sales from Book to Benefit Programs in Mozambique!</title>
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Excuse Me, I’m Trying to Read by Mary Jo Amani, illustrated by Lehla Eldridge, is now available at www.excusemebooks.com.  Profits from the writing of the book all go directly to the community lending library programs in Mozambique!  Read about Mary Jo and Lehla’s trip promoting community lending libraries at www.warthogbooks.com.  
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		<title>April 13 &#8211; 15 Training in Three Villages</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Environmental Education (CEC) in Gorongosa National Park is providing lodging, food, and facilities for a three-day training workshop for twenty-five teachers and community members from the three villages where Books for Kids Africa has lending libraries.  Teachers, school directors, and community library coordinators from each village will participate in a hands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace Corps Volunteers!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dozen Peace Corps Volunteers are raising funds to bring a community lending library to their village.  Stay posted to hear about the new sites and programs!  If you are a Peace Corps volunteer who is interested in bringing a mobile classroom library or community lending library to your village, please contact Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$3000 for Xibuwewe Community School Library in Manhiça</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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Chloé MacKinnon, a volunteer from Canada in the village of Manhiça, raised $3000 toward a community library program (200 books + bookcase + training) for Manhiça in Mozambique. The program will initially benefit forty students and their families (over two hundred people) as well as teachers and students (thirty young children) from the Pikaxú Preschool. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three New Mobile School Libraries</title>
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In July 2010, Books for Kids Africa director Mary Jo Amani traveled to the villages of Vinho, Vunduzi, and Mbulaua in Sofala (Mozambique) for three weeks to distribute 1130 high quality children&#8217;s books to school and community library programs, funded in part by a $6610 U.S. Embassy small grant.
Books for Kids Africa staff trained teachers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expansion of Vinho Community Library</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 16:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
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A new community library coordinator, Inez Farnela Sande, is bringing new life into the Vinho lending library project. After only a few days of training, she immediately formed a group of women interested in learning how to read themselves and to their children. The group met for the first time on Saturday, July 24th Eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteers in Gorongosa!</title>
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Volunteers Domingos Muala and Barbara Hasselbeck are providing regular follow-up and support to the school libraries and community lending program in all three villages where Books for Kids Africa is working&#8212;Vinho, Mbulaua, and Vunduzi.  They are joined by Sinead Brien, a local Peace Corps volunteer, who uses donated books in her environmental club [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New children’s book sales to benefit Books for Kids Africa</title>
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Excuse Me, I&#8217;m Trying to Read! is the first book by the illustrator/writer team Lehla Eldridge and Mary Jo Amani, collaborated on after their trip around Mozambique in November of last year. Libros para Ni&#241;os in Nicaragua will be publishing the book in Spanish next year for their community reading programs.  We&#8217;re also exploring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twelve year old collects children’s books to send to South Africa</title>
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Annika Johnson, a twelve year old homeschooler from St. Peter, Minnesota, is collecting quality children&#8217;s books in good shape to send to South Africa. She and her family will be traveling to Nelspruit, South Africa for four months this fall to mentor local children in a LEGO robotics program, as well as engaging in other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over $11,000 raised in December Fundraiser</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over $11,000 was raised in the December Fundraiser which covered the opening of the two community libraries in Nwadjahane and Vinho in Mozambique.  This included the generous donation of $2000 from Jan and Jack Felderman and Bob and Nancy Felderman, all of Dubuque, Iowa, for production of the book, Excuse Me, I&#8217;m Tryng to [...]]]></description>
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