so many needs

We have just about finished distributing the remaining contents of the container. All the furniture and books have gone and there remain a couple of computers. I won’t give them to schools with no computer literate teacher, so this is an incentive to at least one of the staff to take some training.
I have been able to give a maximum of two computers to each school that asked, but this is very little. In the poor areas, they can hardly believe they are stepping into today's world.
We have been overwhelmed with thanks. One school where we went this past week had no office furniture at all and the headmaster worked off a small table about one metre by two. He now is the proud owner of a large office desk with drawers.
Most schools received at least 200 books from the cartons shipped from Victoria. The school where we were yesterday said their ‘story books’ had been read and re-read over and over. The teacher told us she had already seen an improvement in written and spoken English. It takes so little to make a difference.
I wonder if we can figure a way to send more books. They don’t incur duty and are of much better quality and variety than available here. We have so many discards in Canada. If anyone out there could research the costs for freight (other than a container) and if there is any way to swing it, many children would benefit.
I have begun to ask for input for Victoria Rotary “Adopt a Village” project. The school where we were yesterday is desperately poor. So many of the little ones are in rags with bare feet and showing the red hair of malnutrition. I met with the Assistant Chief, the school administration and the chair of the school committee and have asked them for a proposal of priorities for assistance. I will also approach one other community and then will come the hard task of choice.
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