Thank you for wanting to find out more about our Build On Books Summer Appeal – The Race Is On or more simply: “Come on everybody lets have all your spare books for Sierra Leone!’
Our aim – to help establish 50 school libraries in Sierra Leone before Christmas.
To help us achieve our goal, we have set up two separate appeals which are running in the Liverpool and Marlow areas.
Up in Liverpool, Claire Curtis-Thomas and CODEP Patron Frank Cottrell Boyce are heading an appeal centred around schools in the Liverpool area. If you are in the Marlow region, Build On Books Co-ordinator, Lori Spragg and her team based around the fabulous Marlow Mums can look after you.
Details for both collections are slightly different, but what you need to know is this:
Liverpool
The Liverpool Campaign runs from 8-17 July 2010. The team there can arrange to pick up your books on a daily basis from the 5th to the 17th of July, or books can be dropped off at St Marys Church, St Mary’s Road, Waterloo L22 3XZ every school day from 4-6pm.
Please download this form for further details. Or email claire@codep.co.uk.
Marlow
If you live in the Marlow region, which includes Reading, High Wycombe and Windsor and want to donate books, simply email Lori@buildonbooks.com or follow the link fill out all your details on the spreadsheet. Lori can then arrange to ship your books to Sierra Leone this summer.
You can also drop books off at 38 Oak Tree Road, Marlow SL7 3EE or in Reading at the HQ of BMG – the Business Moves Group. Their address is 4 Acre Road, Reading, RG2 0SX: or telephone them on 018 933 6600
What type of books?
There is such an acute shortage of books in Sierra Leone that every sort of book is welcome providing that they are:
a) In good condition
b) No pages missing
c) Not ripped
Ideally, we are looking for the following:
• Children’s books, every age, every subject
• Novels
• Reference books, dictionaries, atlases, child health
• Language guides
• Text books, particularly reading schemes and GCSE subject books
• Professional literature – standard books on accountancy, engineering, business marketing, nursing, government administration
• Leisure books – arts and crafts, cookery (every type of cook book possible)knitting, sewing, carpentry, do-it –yourself books.
Since May 2009 the BOB team has sent over 200,000 books to Sierra Leone to give the children of this English speaking West African country a chance to learn and prosper. At the last count, almost 100 schools had been provided with books and furniture and we are continuing to distribute books, on the basis of 2 books per child at a rate of 3 schools a week. Children who have never read a book before now have the opportunity to experience the joy and benefits of reading with a great array of titles to choose from.
Class libraries of 1,500 books offer a choice of classic literature, text books, maths books, science books, reference books, encyclopaedias and picture books and popular fiction all donated by generous book-lovers in the UK. Teachers who have not taught with books before are finding new ways to inspire their pupils and create a love of lifelong learning. Books have also been donated to the teachers’ college and national library.
Further information about our Book Appeals and Sierra Leone can be found on the BOB website.
If you are unable to donate any books but would like to help, please consider making a small donation to help with the transportation costs. If you would like to donate, please go to our Just Giving Page
Thank you.
The Codep and BOB teams