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Autumn 2016 The books you help My favourite books to send We always love to hear directly from the people we support about the books they enjoy. Meet some of the library users who have been enjoying the books you Gustav Klimt Mosby’s Dictionary of help us to send: Donated by Hachette UK. Medicine, Nursing & Health Professions Books are not only vital tools for education but can be a Donated by Elsevier. spark to fire the imagination. This is a classic reference This is my This stunning book text for health practitioners favourite book. reproduces more than 100 of Klimt’s and students. Up-to-date medical It is called paintings, each accompanied by extensive dictionaries are always requested by our the Dancing notes. It will make a fine addition to a partners for the hospitals and medical public library’s collection where art lovers schools they support where online Princess. I and budding artists can pore over it. resources are often unavailable and the like this book cost of medical books can be too high for because it has the small budgets with which they operate. nice pictures and colours. Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian I think it has a good story. Donated by The Book People. Wild About Books The most useful books are the This eye-catching book Donated by Penguin revision guides. We need these Regeza Mwendo Primary School, with its gentle story is Random House. to help us pass our exams. Unguja Island, the perfect way to This brightly illustrated introduce young story encourages children readers to the library to read books, as the animals Alfred, 19, Inyathi Secondary School, environment. It has been in it do, whilst also teaching them about sent to our partner CODE When I was those animals. We hope it will inspire a who will use it for reading promotion younger I read love of reading in the children at Tamer in schools. We hope it will encourage a book all about Institute of Community Education in the children to visit their local library! Occupied Palestinian Territories where it I like to read design. When has been sent. books about I first started Gender and Forests other cultures. reading it I Donated by Centre Principles of Physics I feel that I am in didn’t understand. But when I for International Forestry Donated by Wiley. another got to the page about the design Research. Copies of this textbook wonderful world process, things changed. I Almost every partner have been sent to our when reading started to learn new techniques we work with requests partners in Ethiopia where as an artist – that is when books on gender, the they will reach not only higher education cultural books environment, climate change institutions supplied by CODE Ethiopia, (different people, things started to change for me. and forestry. This brand new volume but also the regional public libraries run by dresses, foods, wildlife I got so much from that book – of research covering all these subjects the Ethiopian Knowledge and Technology it gave me courage to proceed. will be welcomed by the librarians of Transfer Society whose libraries are used and children). academic and development institutions by university and college students as well throughout sub-Saharan Africa. as the general public. Zaynab, Somaliland Kenneth, artist, Zimbabwe Returning to Recent news Inspiring Readers: bringing a world of reading into the classroom Book Aid International is once again supporting libraries in Sierra Leone. We have already sent 38,000 brand new books In 2015 we launched our ambitious Inspiring Readers programme, to help the country to rebuild after the Ebola crisis. with the aim of setting up more than 300 Book Box Libraries in Sierra Leone is emerging from SLLB has also done much to primary schools across sub- the recent widely-reported and promote the service in imaginative Saharan Africa in four years. Less devastating Ebola crisis which ways. All libraries have motorbikes than a year into the programme resulted in nearly 4,000 deaths in on which the librarians visit local we’re delighted that, with the help 2014 and 2015. The crisis caused schools, community groups and of our supporters, 25 primary major disruptions in education in some cases even housebound schools are already enjoying their The Inspiring Readers and commerce as well as creating individual users. Book Box Libraries in and programme is going to be many thousands of orphans and We are delighted to be able to another 25 libraries will be getting transformational, because there displaced children. support Sierra Leone as it seeks underway in shortly. are some areas where children to rebuild after the devastation have never seen a book. of Ebola. Books, education and access to relevant information will To find outmore, go to play a crucial part in helping Sierra www.bookaid.org/inspiringreaders Agnes Karegi, Head Librarian at Rumuruti Library in Kenya Leone to rebuild. By sending these new books, we hope to help to contribute to the country's future A book for a book: supporting a moving story success. libraries in refugee camps of a refugee boy Despite the recent challenges We receive support from in a detention the country has a flourishing publishers in many different ways, camp. For every national library service, managed from the vital book donations copy of The Bone by the Sierra Leone Library Board we receive to volunteering Sparrow sold (SLLB) with 20 branches across in our London warehouse until the end of the country. and supporting projects with the year, Hachette Many of these libraries are new donations. will generously and they all have lending, donate a book We were delighted that publisher reference and even basic children’s which will be sent to libraries in Hachette has teamed up with one sections. Much of the collection Kakuma and Dadaab refugee of their authors to support our is old but well looked-after and camps in Kenya through our work in refugee camp libraries. clearly well-used. partner the Windle Trust. Australian Author Zana Fraillon’s The first shipment of books arrives in Sierra Leone new book The Bone Sparrow is Books for better health Spotlight on Last year we sent over 8,000 medical and healthcare books to Zimbabwe. These books, often Zimbabwe unavailable or unaffordable for our partners, provide a vital resource for the country’s current and future medical workforce. One example of We have been working to support libraries across a range a library we support is Parirenyatwa of sectors in Zimbabwe since 1959. In 2015 we sent 205,621 School of Nursing which is based books to our partners there. in the capital, Harare. The library in the School of Nursing is a vital Our first Children’s Corners spaces where children can read, resource for trainee and qualified in Zimbabwe play and learn freely. The first of nurses alike. Nursing students Well-used books in Parirenyatwa School of use the library on a daily basis to Nursing, Harare Library services in Zimbabwe these to open was Nketa library in support their studies and those often struggle for funds and many Zimbabwe’s second city, Bulawayo. already qualified use the library to libraries have only a few old books The five libraries in Bulawayo are keep their knowledge current and There is much improvement for children. Continuing economic now all brightly painted and filled up to date. These medical books in our students because of the difficulties mean that many schools with reading mats, cushions and can help tomorrow's nurses better library – you can see this in our are also unable to provide new child-sized furniture. Children in prepare for their professional final results. books for children. Families are the surrounding areas now have futures and keep their knowledge more likely to prioritise food than their own space in their libraries up to date once qualified. buying books. where they can begin their reading Mrs Chimoka, Senior Tutor journeys. Their specially trained Together with our partners in librarians make the children feel Zimbabwe, we are opening five welcome and help them to discover Supporting primary schools in Children’s Corners in public books within their new collections Zimbabwe libraries in Bulawayo and two which will inspire the next in Harare – bright and colourful Funding shortages in Zimbabwe generation of Zimbabwe's readers. mean many schools struggle to provide books for children and this presents a real challenge for their learning. We support the Rural Libraries and Resources Development Programme which works to provide books for rural schools. Through them, we provide phonics books to help children Children at Emhlangi Primary School receive their books grasp the basics of English as well as non-fiction educational books in their education. When we and stories. These are often the visited Zimbabwe earlier this only books available in schools year, the children could not wait and provide a vital resource to help to get their hands on such bright, The Children's Corner in Nketa, Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s children progress appealing books. Case study: Zigoti Children’s Our progress Corner, One of the new Open Doors Children’s Corners is in Zigoti, with Open Doors Uganda. Before the project started the library had 250 outdated children’s books and Children's Corners no dedicated space for children. A Children’s Corner has now been created in a separate room Books are scarce for many children We have now helped to establish from the main library. One of in sub-Saharan Africa and having 34 Children’s Corners in , the children who comes to the books at home is a luxury few Cameroon, Uganda, , library is 15 year old Mubiru. families can afford. A local library is and Zimbabwe and a He has no books at home so often the only place where children further 15 are currently in progress. he comes to the library several can access books and read for These Corners are welcoming times a week and now brings his pleasure and study but many children on a daily basis to their little sister Nankya. Nankya libraries have no dedicated space own space where they can explore is too young to read but she for children and insufficient funds the book collection, enjoy reading enjoys playing with the toys to buy appealing children’s books. activities and begin their journeys and Mubiru reads to her to of learning and literacy. In 2014 we launched our Open encourage her to love the library Doors Children’s Corners appeal from a young age. to establish 60 Children’s Corners in African public libraries – vibrant, safe and child-friendly spaces where children can read, play and learn. For each library we provide 2,500 brand new carefully selected books from the UK; a grant to refurbish the space and make it colourful and welcoming; funds to Before, the community had a purchase locally published books perception that the library was and training for librarians to run a only for older people. There was great Children’s Corner and inspire no way a kid could go and visit the next generation of readers. the library when there were older people there. Now they have a Number of Children’s Total number Number of separate section, they feel free Corners of books librarians to read and enjoy, and this has helped their literacy skills. established: sent: trained: 34 145,951 171 Abdu Ssegane, Children’s Librarian, Zigoti Climbing Kilimanjaro Our supporters Kathryn took her fundraising to new heights by climbing Mt Kilimanjaro earlier this year. Kathryn climbed in action with a team of friends and family members and reached the summit in time for sunrise. The challenge is especially fitting as we work in Bookmarks for books Biking for books this area of Tanzania – she might Arabella is 12 and has been Friends and book lovers Agnes have even seen the local library supporting Book Aid International and Ferelith recently raised over from the peak! since 2013. She recently sent in £4,000 for our work by cycling a donation which she had raised from Scotland to the South of Gifts in Wills: a thank you by selling beautiful handmade France! The pair covered 1,777km bookmarks to her friends at to reach their goal and raised an Every gift in every Will, however school. Arabella told us: incredible amount of money to big or small, can make a real and support our work. lasting difference to the lives of readers in sub-Saharan Africa. I chose Book Aid International We understand that writing your as my charity and to make Will is a personal decision, and A 24 hour swim for Book Aid bookmarks as my fundraiser one you may not always wish to International because reading is my absolute discuss, but we would like to pass passion. It makes me sad to think Kerry braved icy depths to support our thanks on to every individual that there are people in the world our work this summer – by taking who has chosen to support us in who don’t have access to books, part in a 24 hour open water swim. this way. Thanks to you, we are learning and ‘a place they can Kerry and her friend Tracey took it able to support more libraries and be happy.’ For this reason I will in turns to swim a mile each every change more lives both now and continue to support Book Aid other hour. Kerry said: for generations to come. International for as long as I can.

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