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Camelbookdrive

March 20th 2007 at 6:46 am

Out in the desert in Kenya mobile tribes don’t have libraries, so bookmobiles are set up on camels. The Camel Bookmobile has 12 camels moving through 4 settlements a day to bring literacy to semi-nomadic people.

You can see a really well put together website about this amazing service here.

They have an Amazon.com wishlist, consider snagging something there and sending it. It will have a major impact.

By the way, the website, using wordpress.com, is an excellent example of how to put together a complex database backed website using a basic hosted wordpress install via wordpress.com.

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