This morning we loaded the car up with as many boxes of books as we could get in and drove to Ulundi to deliver the books you folks have sent for the Kids in Zululand.
The library at Ulundi serves about 300,000 people.
The library has an annual operating budget of R400,000. The Rand was trading today at 7.5 to the $ this morning. That is about $53,000 USD. That money has to cover salaries, maintenance, utilities, improvements and books. That doesn’t leave much room for new books.
This is the main library floor for reference and non fiction. Final exams are going on right now and the high school students were busy writing and researching there papers.
This is the children’s section.
Remember this is a library that serves a community of 300,000.
The Library was very grateful to receive the books. They also identified two other libraries in Zululand in need of books.
So folks please keep the books coming. Talk to your friends and family, ask them to gather books. Talk to you children’s school teacher. Mention it at your church. As long as I am here in South Africa I will continue to gather the books and get them to the kid.
