Books for the World
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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