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North Devon
 
 
 
With our base in this area (Bideford/Barnstaple) we believe that we should be supporting efforts at a local level to improve literacy standards - especially for children. So our first project - in conjunction with the National Literacy Trust (www.literacytrust.org.uk) - is to introduce, fund, and coordinate their 'Reading is Fundamental' programmes for year 6 pupils at two local primary schools in the Bideford area during the 2007/2008 school year. More information about 'Reading is Fundamental' can be found at their website, www.rif.org.uk
 
Thanks to kind assistance from the organisers of the Appledore Book Festival (www.appledorebookfestival.org) we launched these programmes with author events by Tanya Landman at East-the-Water Community Primary School and Tony de Saulles at Appledore Primary School in early October 2007.


 Uganda
 
               
 
We are working closely with the Barnstaple based charity Amigos International (www.amigosonline.org.uk) to select several hundred suitable books from our own stock as an initial donation to a library for their Kira Farm Training Centre Project near Kampala, Uganda. These books consist mostly of 'how-to' manuals on practical subjects such as carpentry, car repairs, plumbing etc as well as other educational subjects, books for children of all ages, National Geographic magazines, and a selection of quality fiction.
 
We are also pledging funds for the purchase of suitable locally published books for this library project.  
 
 
Donations
  
May be made through PayPal using the email address of bookrelief.uk@tiscali.co.uk as the beneficiary
 
or you may send a donation by cheque to:
 
Rev John Carvosso
Treasurer,
BookRelief UK
The Rectory
Tawstock
BARNSTAPLE
Devon
EX31 3HZ
 
or you can send a BACS payment directly to our bank account, in which case we would ask you to contact us first by email on bookrelief.uk@tiscali.co.uk requesting the necessary details.
 
 
 
Ethiopia
 
            
Kelsang Pawo and BookRelief UK Trustee Barry Evetts in our Bideford shop.            
 
Following on from a recent visit to Bideford by our good friend, supporter and roving ambassador Kelsang Pawo, we are working together with his Gesar Foundation (www.gesarfoundation.org) and the Kindu Trust (for more information go to www.gondarlink.org and click on the link on their home page to the Kindu Trust) to facilitate the supply of suitable children's books for the Arbatu Ensesa School library - which is being built with funds raised by the Gesar Foundation - and for a new primary school in Gondar, Ethiopia, the Empress Mentewab School. Both of these projects were set up, and are run by, a remarkable lady from Plymouth called Kate Fereday Eshete who has lived in Gondar since 1998. You can find out more about her work at www.kateferedayeshete.net
 
We will be playing our part in this project through the physical donation of suitable books sourced in the UK, augmented by the funding of suitable locally published books which can be sourced in Ethiopia.