*Ø* Blogmanac | Shelf of books for poor villages
Years ago an appropriate technology (AT) organisation called TRANET, run by Bill Ellis and Margaret Ellis from Rangely, ME, USA, used to raise money for a "shelf of books". They would send a stack of 100 books free of charge to poor villages in poor countries, and they were on things like permaculture and AT.
Bill's moved onto other work with Creating Learning Communities and tells me the TRANET work is kind of on the back burner. But it was a brilliant project, one I'd like to see cranked up again. It's long been a dream of mine to help this happen and maybe through sponsorships, the Almanac will be a catalyst. I figure that by planting this seed here something might happen.
Years ago an appropriate technology (AT) organisation called TRANET, run by Bill Ellis and Margaret Ellis from Rangely, ME, USA, used to raise money for a "shelf of books". They would send a stack of 100 books free of charge to poor villages in poor countries, and they were on things like permaculture and AT.
Bill's moved onto other work with Creating Learning Communities and tells me the TRANET work is kind of on the back burner. But it was a brilliant project, one I'd like to see cranked up again. It's long been a dream of mine to help this happen and maybe through sponsorships, the Almanac will be a catalyst. I figure that by planting this seed here something might happen.
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