Camel Book Drive

The camel library in Garissa has received more than 5,500 books! Thank you. A camel-borne library has been established in Wajir, where books are badly needed. The Wajir base is even deeper in the bush, so this means more readers in far-flung places. It also means your contributions are providing vital help. So far, it has received more than 1,400 volumes. See more under Latest News.

Inspired by the December 2008 article in O, the Oprah Magazine, Chandler, AZ, high school senior Bailey Shultz organized a contest between two elementary schools to raise books and money for the camel library. In just over a week of her “A Book And A Buck” campaign, Bailey raised over 6,000 books and about $800! Bailey and her family are now working to package and send as many appropriate books as possible. Bailey: YOU ROCK, thank you. 

Thanks to the Rashi School of Newton, MA, for making the camel book drive part of their Tamchui Education Week, and to librarian Pat McAbee and the Global Outreach Club of Princess Anne High School, Virginia Beach, VA, which has raised more than $900 to help the camel library.

The Manhattan Village shopping mall in Mahattan Beach, CA, conducted a months-long campaign and collected more than 40 boxes of books, which Ericka Sanchez, the assistant marketing director, has been mailing off. What an enormous, concentrated effort! Thank you, Ericka and Manhattan Village.