Donating to the Camel Book Drive
Sometimes literacy is part of a semantic discourse, a cultural technological frame.
More often its real. Real books. Real reading. Real access. Real lives being changed.
Such is the case with the Camel Book Drive which serves the isolated northeastern province of Kenya. And changes lives.
And also check out -- if an earlier post of mine didn't already tip your hat -- Room to Read, the organization that John Woods started and has already created/opened over 3000 libraries and schools in developing nations around the world.
I'm fortunate enough to have been asked to sit on the board of a small not-for-profit based in Brooklyn, NY called SCALEAfrica that is helping to rebuild a single school in Zambia in an effort to help the local community gain momentum after floods devastated the town/school.
One way or another, whether it be a single donated book, passing on a blog post, or getting involved at a larger level, all of us who have so much are also challenged to get more involved without letting life get in the way. Perhaps it'll be the Camel Book Drive or Room to Read or something much more local. You decide. But get involved at a level you can be passionate about.
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