New subject: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia and books for African children

21 Jul 2006


      Hello,
Let me forward this email to Foundation-l for other
people feedback, and let's keep in touch with this in
any case :-)
Florence Devouard
--- Marlies Klooster marliesklooster@gmail.com
wrote:
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This is the e-mail I meant.
Thank you!
Marlies
Begin forwarded message:
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From: Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com
Date: 17 July 2006 2:21:43 PM
To: Marlies Klooster marliesklooster@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Wikipedia and books for African
children
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Thank you! :) You might consider sending this
email as well to
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foundation-l@wikimedia.org so that more people in
our community will
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see
it and learn about this wonderful organization.
Marlies Klooster wrote:
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Dear Mr Walsh,
I am impressed by the work and initiatives of
Wikimedia, especially
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Wikipedia. You developed something that is truly
unique for our times
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and I want you to compliment for that. Recently I
read an interview
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with
you in the Dutch newspaper NRC (www.nrc.nl) in
which you made the
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intriguing remark that if Wikipedia were ever to
make money from
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advertisements, you would want this money to go
to books for children
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in
Africa.
As a volunteer and fundraiser for Biblionef I
feel I should tell you
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about this great book organization I know:
Biblionef. This NGO donates
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new storybooks--free of charge--to needy
childrens organisations
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throughout South Africa. (There are more
Biblionefs in other
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countries,
see http://www.biblionef.org/). Since 1999
Biblionef South Africa only
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has donated over 250.000 books. Their target
group comprises children
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living in disadvantaged communities who have no
access to books.
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Biblionef is unique in South Africa in the sense
that the books they
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donate are in each childs own language, which
means they cover all of
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South Africas eleven languages.
In South Africa over 60% of schools have no
library and at least half
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of
them is located more than 40 miles away from a
public library. The
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main
aim of Biblionefs work is to establish a culture
of reading. This is
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only possible when the books have an impact on
children. That is why
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Biblionef carefully collects the books that will
be donated. In doing
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so
Biblionef closely cooperates with local
publishers in various ways.
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Publishers donate newly published storybooks in
the African languages
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to
Biblionef. For other projects Biblionef initiates
reprints or
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publications. Whenever possible Biblionef links
its donation to
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existing
reading initiatives or plans.
I personally worked with Biblionef for over a
year, during which we
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created the website (www.biblionefsa.org.za) and
during which I had
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the
chance to visit a great number of schools and
libraries who had (or
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asked for) Biblionef books. Some were really
small, some had hardly
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any
books but they were always FULL with children.
You have to visit an
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African library to understand its importance in a
world deprived of
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information and quiet workspace. A number of
those libraries is in the
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process of getting computers and internet
connection, too. But doesn't
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all learning and reading start with colourful
stories conveyed in
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quality books? If you ever have the opportunity
to donate toward books
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for children in Africa, I strongly hope you will
think of Biblionef.
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Thank you so much for your time and
consideration.
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Kind regards,
Marlies Klooster
for: Biblionef South Africa
http://www.biblionefsa.org.za
Biblionef is a member of the American Fund for
Charities, a 501(c)(3)
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public charity that allows American individuals
and companies to make
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tax-deductible donations to Biblionef SA through
their fund.
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"Motho ke motho ka batho babang" (A person is a
person because of
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others)
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