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& A Followup Tale An e-mail from a group in Germany
who have sent several generous shipments of new
books creatively financed though volksmarches and Gluwein sales! |
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From: "Tanja Schulze Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:49 PM Subject: Books to Malawi - a new story Dear Virginia …I wanted today tell you a story that I was told about our
books in Malawi. I know from Carrie that Mawingo seems to have written a
letter saying another load of books arrived. But
maybe he didn´t tell you the story around it. A friend of XXX that had also applied for the foundation
…was interested throughout t…and kept in touch. Two months ago he went to
Africa,…he spontaneously decided to go to Malawi and
from there asked XXX what the contact in Malawi is for the Caleb Library. We were
able to send it to him quickly where he downloaded the address for a load of money from the internet, I
suppose in Lililongwe and then made his way up to look for Mawingo. He went
to a small town in Rumphi district and asked around, and then was told where Mawingo lived. Two youngsters accompanied
him trekking to Mawingo´s village where they were very welcome. Christoph, that´s his name; was very excited, they seemed
to chat a lot and then it had gotten too late to return, so he stayed over. And on the next day the most incredible thing happened:
The second load of books that we had sent had not arrived yet - but did so on
the day Christoph was there still. And looks like all were smiles :-). …when hearing the story we were all very happy that one
person we know got to go there, meet Mawingo, see
the country. I am hoping that Christoph will be able to show us some
pictures some day. Our project is still going on and we´re now looking into
making it a bit bigger or more impacting by possibly
donating books to the Teachers´ College. We´re in touch with some governmental aid
agencies from Germany that operate in Malawi and they are suggesting to also
send books that help teachers become good teachers as their few books seems
to be 20 years outdated. Nevertheless, we don´t want to forget the Caleb
library since that´s how it all started. We´ve just collected quite an amount
of money by now so that we´re hoping to spread it for more worthy causes. Hope you liked the story and if I hear more I´ll let you
know. Have a good day. Love, Tanja |
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Tanja’s group is
affiliated with the Melton Foundation.
To find out more about them visitthe link below! Melton
Foundation http://www.meltonfoundation.org |
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