{"id":99,"date":"2010-09-07T14:41:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soroptimist-gbi.org\/london-chilterns\/?p=99"},"modified":"2013-10-13T20:01:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T19:01:19","slug":"thames-valley-news-from-sierra-leone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/london-chilterns\/2010\/09\/07\/thames-valley-news-from-sierra-leone\/","title":{"rendered":"Thames Valley News of Projects in Sierra Leone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SI THAMES VALLEY have been really lucky in recruiting two new soroptimists who are directly connected with Sierra Leone.\u00a0 Many clubs will already know of Rosie Simbo who is a specialist midwife dealing with FGM and HIV\/Aids mothers.\u00a0 Rosie has also started a field project in her area, recruiting 50 women to plant seeds and grow much needed vegetables which they can feed their children and also sell.<\/p>\n<p>Lori Spragg is a local Marlow lady who has already made a huge difference to the literacy chances of children in Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>This is Lori\u2019s latest newsletter.\u00a0 We hope you enjoy it as much as we do and if you have any contacts with schools, libraries we would be delighted to collect any books you can deliver, either to our Fashion Party in Bourne End at Sat 11 Sept, our next club meeting on 21 Sept in Bourne End or to our next Regional Meeting at Lancaster Hall Hotel.<\/p>\n<div><em>It has been a really hectic month.\u00a0 Firstly thanks to a group of volunteers from our charity Codep who took the 3 Peaks challenge, we were able to pay for the first session of training for 100 teachers who are our Build on Books Literacy Coordinators.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><\/em><\/p>\n<div><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-100\" src=\"http:\/\/soroptimist-gbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2010\/09\/librarian-in-temporal-library-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Librarian\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0 The 2 day course was conducted by the Sierra Leone Library Board on our behalf and was called Basic Librarianship.\u00a0 The participants got an official certificate from the SLLB.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>This was a really big deal for them.\u00a0 They actually had an &#8216;opening ceremony&#8217; attended by local dignitaries.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It was even televised.\u00a0 The participants were encouraged to take their responsibilities for instilling a reading culture in their pupils very seriously.\u00a0 The rebuilding of their Sierra Leone depends on the children learning to read and becoming educated.\u00a0 Now that so many schools (98), have books thanks to people like you,\u00a0some children (about 50,000) have a chance for future.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Every time I think about Haiti, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq I hope that in the next few years some one else will use our Build on Books model of building &#8216;literacy communities&#8217; by equipping large numbers of school libraries with books and furniture and training Literacy Coordinators.\u00a0 It\u00a0may be\u00a0easier to rebuild a school than it is to rebuild a reading culture when one is lost through destruction &amp; poverty.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Last week was brilliant.\u00a0 Brid Hayward and I went down to\u00a0Wembley to help pack our most recent container filled with 1200 boxes of books, about 50 -60,000 books.\u00a0 I have lost count I think it is the 5th container.\u00a0 We\u00a0loaded 650 boxes of books which came down from Liverpool and some brilliant cabinets that went with them.\u00a0 Then we took the container to Business Moves Group in Reading and got the rest of the boxes.\u00a0 We will know the exact total when they have been delivered to the 50 schools in Lunsar.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>We know have to find a huge quantity of school furniture.\u00a0 We used to get all the desks and chairs from schools that are being rebuilt in the Labour &#8216;schools for the future&#8217; program.\u00a0 That has been scrapped now so we are a bit unsure where our furniture is coming from.\u00a0 What\u00a0 really want is lots &amp; lots of library shelving.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-101\" src=\"http:\/\/soroptimist-gbi.org\/london-chilterns\/files\/2010\/09\/mini-library-sitting-on-the-floor-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Mini-library\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>You may recall that in June I set up a small community library on Waterloo at the Youth Centre.\u00a0 they call it the Mini-library.\u00a0 It is just wonderful, the children are spending their days there reading while schools are closed for the monsoon season.\u00a0 Little barefoot children sitting on the dirt floor reading our books.\u00a0\u00a0It is lovely..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I put 20 blue plastic chairs on this container so they will have something to sit on very soon. \u00a0Thank you to those who donated \u00a35 to send a chair.\u00a0 I would like to raise a little money for that library to put a tiled floor in and to pay the librarians very small stipend.<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>West Wycombe community library are interested in twinning with the mini-library.<\/em><\/p>\n<div><em>That is\u00a0the Build on Books News.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>There is also the Kori Development Project or Rosie&#8217;s Rice Farm.\u00a0 A bumper peanut crop is coming in which means the beginning of the end for kwashiorkor for Taiama, at least.\u00a0 We are going to need to build some storage for the seeds for next season planting.\u00a0 The Rice crop is doing fine.\u00a0 Rosie &amp; I are talking about chickens next.\u00a0 We have been given a good donation from Third World Aid a Marlow Women&#8217;s group that meet at St Peters.\u00a0 Also I hear Rose has been asked to speak to a group of Marlow Mum&#8217;s which is wonderful,\u00a0she is really excited.\u00a0 We would welcome any donations made out to Rose Simbo and left at my house.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Also if you would like to hold a fundraiser for my work it would be appreciated.\u00a0 I am going to Sierra Leone again in September and I hope to go to Waterloo, Lunsar &amp; Taiama.\u00a0 If I see something is needed for any of\u00a0our projects I like to pay for it there and then.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t earn any money so I can only pay for a few things here and there.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Donations can be made to Build on Books\u00a0 and left at my house. Anyone fancy holding a coffee morning?<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>I am going on a desperately needed holiday next week so please hold on to any books until the start of school year.\u00a0 After packing nearly 400 boxes, with the help of lots of Marlow Mums, I need a break.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Thank you all for giving me your books, they are on their way to Sierra Leone where they will be read &amp; treasured.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Peace &amp; Love<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Lori Spragg<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>x<\/em><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"http:\/\/www.buildonbooks.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.buildonbooks.com\/\"><em>www.buildonbooks.com<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SI THAMES VALLEY have been really lucky in recruiting two new soroptimists who are directly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thames Valley News of Projects in Sierra Leone | News | Blog | Events | SI London Chilterns<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI London Chilterns : Blog &amp; News : Thames Valley News of Projects in Sierra Leone : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI London Chilterns . 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