This new Rotary Club of Sedona project collect s used school books to se nd to its sister club in Houston, Texas, which gathers books from ar ound the U.S., shipping them regularly to Rotary clubs in Africa and/or India, which di stribute them to the neediest schools. Crawford said the idea came to him when his son spent a semester teaching math at a village school in Tanzania. “James reported back to me that his class of 23 had to share just one math textbook—yet here in the U.S. we throw away t ons of textbooks every year.” Crawford started collecti ng discarded books from Red Rock High School, schools in Cottonwood, and Sedona Public Librar
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