Better World Blog
Better World Blog
Funding Literacy ... By the Book!

Welcome to the Better World Books Blog! We created this forum to connect you with other members of the BWB community and to help you stay informed. We think this will be a powerful tool for all of us as we continue to grow and expand our support for world wide literacy.

» Friday, October 13, 2006

It's been a busy week in the Logistics office, starting and ending with a bang.  Monday found the Campus Division Support Agent (myself) navigating a very large truck through the streets of Chicago to pick up 9 pallets of books generously donated by the Chicago Public Library's Friends of the Blackstone Branch.  The streets of Chicago never felt so narrow, but with the help of a few dedicated volunteers, especially Betsy Glynn, my navigator, and Dina Weinstein, our contact at the book sale, we were able to get about 9000 books boxed up and loaded in under two hours.  Great job and thank you to everyone involved! 

Now Friday has finally arrived, and we ended our week in the warehouse by sending our second shipment of approximately 18,000 college text books directly to the Kampala International University in Uganda. 

10-13-06 001-resize.jpg

We have more of these direct shipments scheduled and we will try to keep everyone updated as they go out.  In the meantime, everyone have a fantastic weekend, and keep those books coming!

Posted by Nic on 10/13/2006 UTC
#    Comments [0]
Name
E-mail
Home page

Comment (HTML not allowed)  

Enter the code shown (prevents robots):