Running For A Cause

Nanubhai Fellows have spent a lot of time this year working to start and improve libraries in their schools, and are interested in their continued success. The seed for these libraries was the generous donation and shipment of children's picture books from the US, but the Fellows have seen need for other types of materials in these rural classrooms.

Students are often presented with assignments that require research and even want to peruse the small libraries for books to support their assignments. As is often common in rural areas, up-to-date material like this is lacking. I recall the now famous story of 15-year old William Kamkwamba, who used rough plans from a library book to build working windmills to generate electricity for his house. Clearly, as picture books have been useful for closing the literacy gap for our students, access to current nonfiction will serve to narrow a similar gap.

In short, there are seven of us running our marathons to raise money to purchase three things: new books on specific topics of interest in the libraries at Madhi, Bajipura, and Kadod; computer encyclopedia software; and a computer for dedicated research use. We hope you will support our efforts to improve rural access to modern informational resources.

You can track our progress on our new blog: http://www.21k4kids.com/