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Greetings from Rwanda,
I hope you are doing well. Jarod and I are still enjoying our time here in Rwanda. It is truly an amazing country and I wish you could have the chance to visit it sometime. The reason I am writing is to see if you would be interested in playing a part with our current project.
The village we live in is a very remote and rural village and because of its isolation, has very little access to many needed resources, one of which is books. We are in the process of trying to raise money to send a couple thousand books to our village to start a community library. The people of Banda Village are so hungry for knowledge and since the official language was recently switched to English, books in English are very necessary. If you would like to help out with sending some books to Banda, please read below. We are using two different organizations which have worked with sending large shipments of books to Africa for many years now. The first is called International Book Project and the instructions for how to donate are listed below. We need to raise about $1,500.
The easiest way to donate is by sending a check to the address below. Just make sure that it says “Sarah Ring, PCV –Rwanda” on the memo line.
If you want to donate online, go to
You should click the radial button under Dedication for “on behalf of” and type “Sarah Ring, PCV – Rwanda” in the field. That stays with the donation and it will be allocated accordingly.
If you have any questions or want to make sure your donation is correctly allocated, you can email Rachel Lewis. Her contact info is below.
Rachel C. Lewis
Executive Director
International Book Project
1440 Delaware Avenue
Lexington, KY 40505
859-254-6771
Skype: Rachel.C.Lewis
director@intlbookproject.org
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The second organization is called Books for Africa and the information to donate there is listed below as well. We are working in collaboration with 13 other Peace Corps Volunteers. The total project goal is $3500 but we only need about $500 to complete our portion of the fundraising. The project is called: Ubwonko Bwiza: Books for Rwanda’s Future project.
Books for Africa,
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