Our mission is to send English language books to augment, and in some case initiate, libraries in schools in Romania to help the children build an expanded base from which to build their English language skills.
The word is passing around the net about what the "improvements" in the postal rate structure means to many of us dealing with foreign schools and teachers. The elimination of the surface transportation has more than tripled the cost of sending stuff oversea, particularly for those of us who sent books/educational material. Sending full container is one thing, but sending 50 pound boxes is something else entirely.
Luckily for "A Thousand Books" our country of service is Romania and there are economical shipping options available to us that most countries don't have, so we can carry on virtually without change.
As far as that goes, we have been trying to raise a bit of cash recently.
* A group of musicians who host a weekly "open-mic" night are allowing us to take donations at the door in lieu of free admission during May and June. We should raise enough there to fund a nice school library.
* A local talkshow host has a rock&roll band (seems common from those guys) and gave us a percentage of the receipts from a show they did.
* The local Romanian Orthodox church is allowing me to solicit its members to fund another school under our "Adopt-a-teacher" program (and I'm asking the local Greek Orthodox church to follow suit.
* I sent out a mailing to all the local Wal-Marts asking for contributions. They award small grants to approved local charities. So far no responses.
* I applied to a local grocery store that has a Wishing Well program. They finally met with me and it seems they may give us a month on their calendar.
* A wine bar and the local Romanian wine distributor is hosting a benefit wine-tasting with entertainment provided by the three Romanian-born members of the symphony.
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