The west African nation of Liberia endured 14 years of civil war from 1989-2003. Emerging from the rubble is a population of poor, uneducated citizens who live without electricity, a public water supply, schools, or any of the other public programs we take for granted in the developed world.
The Liberian Literacy foundation was created in an effort to educate the liberians while producing enough renewable energy to fuel their own country as well as to provide carbon offsets to those countries in the developed world. Through their innovative book recycling program, The foundation will raise enough money to implement these plans and create a future where the developing world will be able to contribute to and have a positive impact on the global economy.
The call for students and others in the community is to collect and donate used college text books that will be sold to fund the program. We all buy several, sometimes dozens of textbooks per semester, donating a book and buying a book from the program is not a lot to ask. Visit the website to find out more about what you can do to help the cause and to check on the program's progress.
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Glen,
ReplyDeleteI admire your commitment to the Liberian literacy challenge and would encourage you to find a way to meld your committment to the project and your course work. I believe, more and more, that digital journalists must also be historians (and also rhetoricians). What events or circumastances in Liberia's history would persuade the EMU community (and larger southeast Michigan community) to join your cause? Some would call this "advocacy journalism." I encourage you to continue to use your blog to build support.
Christine Tracy