Help from Ireland

Not content with helping the Children's Reading Tent at the ZIBF, Trocaire Zimbabwe and their head office in Maynooth, Ireland have gone and rallied their staff and sent 50 lovely children's books plus two wee book sets for the library. Smashing.

A huge and special thank you to Donny at the Zimbabwe office for fitting this small but heavy suitcase of books in his travel luggage. Not only kind but generous as when we travel out of Zimbabwe not only do we take a lot out with us to friend and family but we tend to come back with all the things we miss or can't afford here.

Another story box for a branch (Greendale maybe if we get enough volunteers?) is definately filling up. And the rest will be going towards Mount Pleasant Branch shelves as a flagship storytelling venue for HCL. We are making progress in revamping the children's section there. Artists have gathered for the reading corner, and volunteer library study students are being rallied to blitz the shelves. This will mean some empty looking shelves for a while BUT I know they will be quickly filled again with Gods Grace and the kind hearts of good people. I will keep you all updated.

Reading should commence next school term (we can only manage reading during the school terms at the moment of which we have three a year - Mid January to Early April/ May to August/ September to early December).

The timetable of reading will be organised the week of 9th September and hopefully we will be reading again from the 21st.