Six Big Boxes of Books Arrive From Canada

Ute, the librarian at a high school on the outskirts of Montreal, where I taught English and history for fifteen years, got on board to help with our Libraries in Boxes Project.  She organized the collection and shipping of six boxes of books to Tanzania.  She was helped by her principal, Dion and by Jamie, an enthusiastic English teacher.  Funding was also generously provided by the Black Family Association of the West Island.

Peter unpacking the books

Unpacking the boxes was a delight and a trip down memory lane.  It took ages to get the books out of the boxes because we were reading so many of them.  Ute did a brilliant job of selecting the perfect fiction and non-fiction books.  There were many of the old children's classics that we read to our own kids when they were growing up.  A stack of Hardy Boy books caught my attention and I began to remember the exciting adventures of Joe and Frank Hardy and their friend Chet.

  Debra checking out some of the titles