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Sharon Allen (r), an African Library Project Volunteer, poses in front of books sent from the Delphi Interact club, with the Bondo Township Primary School librarian (l).

Kenyan students receive Delphi’s African Library Project books

Last year, the Delphi Interact Club started to collect books for the African Library Project (ALP). They quickly amassed a wide selection of books and soon were able to send it to the ALP headquarters. In mid-June, the books arrived at Bondo Township Primary School in Kenya. The school is located right near the shores of Lake Victoria.

The books were not sent directly to the school, , and the boxes of books made it there by a variety of ways: being carried on someone’s head, tied to the back of a motor bike, and by canoe, to name a few.

Students from Bondo took the time to write letters to the Delphi Interact Club, expressing their gratitude. Students said they found the books “interesting,” and that “the entire community is [thankful for] you.” One student even said that others “are being surprised how we are speaking in English, because we are speaking like Europeans.”

Last year, Interact collected more than enough books for one library, so they are planning to help create a second one this year in Botswana.

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