Sunday, August 17, 2008

Fifty New Libraries for Africa?

The Waterloo Charity plans to build 50 new libraries across Africa, starting with the first one in the town of Waterloo in Sierre Leone. At the end of the war the people of Waterloo were asked what one project would improve their lives. In a country where there are just 20,000 books for a population of five million, a library was the obvious choice.
Full article in the Sunday Herald.