A library of work for Ethiopia
Quick ReadRetired Huntington educator galvanizes effort to stock new library in Hosanna, a rural area of Ethiopia.
Photo credit: Danny Ghitis | Volunteers, including high students, pack 580 boxes of children's books in Smithtown to be shipped to Ethiopia as part of a large community effort organized by Helen Boxwill, seated in center. (Nov. 13, 2010)
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Books bound for Ethiopia
The cardboard mountain was daunting: Seven hundred and seven boxes. Inside: 29,801 books.
And for more than 50 volunteers the challenge was to pick them up and load them into a shipping container bound for a pier in Manhattan - where they would depart for Africa and then a truck ride to Hosanna, a rural town in southern Ethiopia.
The woman responsible for the project - delivering books...
