An exciting shipment for Bookbus arrived here in Zambia last
week. I got a call from customs while at school on Thursday. ‘Come and collect
your 600kg of books today,’ they said!
10,000 books donated by Miles Kelly Publishing for
the Zambia and Malawi projects were waiting for us, so we loaded them onto the
Bookbus and brought them back to camp. What makes this shipment even more
special is that these books are branded with the Bookbus logo and for every
book sold in the UK, Miles Kelly will make a donation to The Bookbus
Foundation. So it is a HUGE thank you from everyone involved in the Bookbus to
all at Miles Kelly!!
Today we took the first of the books out into the field. We
learnt, amongst many things, about why
ladybirds have spots from the “Bugs” book, using the book to emphasis what
nouns and adjectives are before making flying ladybirds.
We then distributed the first of the books, with all the
pupils in grades 5, 6 and 7 at Twabuka School getting 2 books each to take home. They were
SUPER excited and the first task was to make sure they wrote their names in
their books, very important!
Sets of the 10 different titles will be given to the schools
to add to their Bookbus libraries, some will be sent to South Luangwa, Lusaka
and Malawi and of course some will find their homes on Charlie and Matilda our
two mobile libraries!
Thank you to all at Miles Kelly Publishing!
Kelly - June 2013
