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Hello Again!
This year, 2011, will be the great School Library Book year at Edward Ndlovu Memorial Library in Gwanda.
The book boxes, which are sent out to rural schools in Gwanda District, have been passed around for many years now. (12 years??? maybe) and the books are read and worn out during all these years. So this year will be THE BOOK YEAR!
The books on the picture I bought for the boxes when I was in South Africa last year. These I chose from knowledge about the books. We have them in Sweden at my library in Älmhult also and they are much loved by the children.
I bought them from money I had collected in Sweden before my trip to Southern Africa. The lady in the Museum shop in Cape Town was a bit chocked to sell so many books to one custumer and my arms were a bit longer after carring them all the way to Gwanda and the library. Maybe you could get them cheaper somewhere els, but as a librarian, you want to see and feel the real book in your hands and it is also a happiness to collect them like this.

We need to ask our self: A book for the library book boxes in Gwanda cost as much as HALF A BOTTLE of wine or a package of cigaretts or half the price of a cinema ticket or two loafs of bread or HALF A PIZZA, all in Swedish prices!
If we all go together and offer that half bottle of wine or make a homemade Pizza, we get an awful lot of books for the school children and their parents.
So let 2011 be the great BOOK BOX YEAR!
Want to join and buy a book instead? Please contact me!

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Love for today and think of what a diffrent a book can make!

Dear friends to Edward Nlovu Memorial library in Gwanda Matabeleland South Zimbabwe Africa! Back after a real long break, but now I am here again!

I have got so many requests on start writing about the library in Gwanda again, and here we are! But I ask you all to help me and give me feedback on what I am writing! And also send material and texts to this blog.

To write in a blog is fun and interesting, because while writing you form your thoughts and idéas.

This is one of my favourite photos from Zimbabwe and shows one of many central figures at the library in Gwanda. The picture shows Mr Jackson Ndlovu with one of 4 grandchildren. Jackson is most happy when he is among the children.
 His own grandchildren, the children at the library, the children out in schools in the rural areas, which is provided with
school library books in boxes from Edward Ndlovu Library.It was the same when Jackson visited us in Sweden, it was among the children he felt most comfortable.

And that genuine interest for people is essential for a librarian, all over the world. You must feel that happiness when right book or right piece of information reach  the customer in front of  you. Maybe , if you have that good feeling you go on working with the library and providing books for many years. And in Gwanda Jackson Ndlovu is known as a passionate librarian.

Please let us be in thouch, mail us, make comments, give us ideas of what you want to know more about and so on.

My eamail is : [email protected]

Mr. Ndlovu you reach on: [email protected]