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Help build a secondary school for Matopeni children!
The building of the primary school in Matopeni slum is already in phase two, it will be completed during the first half of 2009. There are already several children in the higher classes (class 7 and class 8) of the primary school who urgently need possibilities for further education and vocational training. These are children from very poor families or they are orphans. To get an education and a profession is the key for a better life and for a brighter future for the children.
Help to stock up the library with books and resource material
The education centre has established a small library, but it needs to be filled with books and resource materials.
Again, pulled from the earlier project definition discussion posted by Mary:
"The list of groups that donate books and equipment that I mentioned in my last post is at
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgs9fnp6_0g5zp8p3n
(click on the links to go to the relevant sections)"
This is another message pulled from the earlier project definition discussion to help keep track of where things stand currently with this task:
Thu, 2008/10/23 - 05:18
Dear Romina,Mary,Mohamed,Raul Barb and all.
Thank you very much for contributing.
Mary thank you very much for putting together the plan,project proposak doc,bills of quanties.Hope now people can view it as a together document.
Mohamed,may you help and translate the ducuments in dutch and help to disribute to kind people and organisations so that we can be advised .
Information posted by Mary from earlier task discussion:
As Christopher could not attach the CBO registration form he emailed it to me. It is attached here as a PDF as the site still won't let me attach a .JPG file as a file, only as an image.
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Hi Christopher
Have you tried Biblionef? I know several Nabuur-related projects that have received books from them and the application process is very straightforward.
Biblionef
http://www.biblionef.org/
Find books for the school library-READING and TEXTBOOKS
Notre Dame High School has a library and a librarian. The library contains some chairs and a few books that have been received through generous donations. At the present time, students have to share textbooks because there are not enough books for each student. The library could also use general reading and reference materials.




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Here is a list of several other resources we collected in the Khandbari village in association with getting books for the school library. Again, with most of these, transportation costs will likely be the most prohibitive factor. I still believe 100% that you will find the most success if you focus primarily on the organizations working inside Nepal already, including publishing and book distribution houses.
http://www.betterworldbooks.com/default.aspx
Better World Books
http://www.internationalbookbank.org/
The International Book Bank