Oct. 19, 2004
ROCKFORD, Ill. – The Pookai Book Project stuffed as much as it could into its fifth shipment of the year: a high-tech computer, books, and extra cash.
The Project sent its usual $250 and books (39 of them). But it also sent a desktop computer packed with educational software and the capability to play movies; a printer-scanner-copier; and an additional $240 gathered to help the Angsoeng Library power a new generator.
The computer was won late last year in a technology charity contest and has been slowly arriving at the Pookai offices in 2004. The computer, which has a DVD/CD drive and LCD monitor, also came with a HP printer/scanner/copier.
Along with it’s regular $250 to help fund the library, The Project shipped $240 raised through the efforts of the Keep Angsoeng Lit Campaign that will help power a generator purchased by Angsoeng Library founder Chandara Lor. Additional funds donated for the Keep Angsoent Lit Campaign will be shipped later this year.
The books in this shipment are: Atlas of the World by Keith Lye; Snowballs by Lois Ehlert; More, More, More said the Baby by Vera B. Williams; Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner; Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes; Wonders of Rivers by Rae Bains; The Cat Who Wore A Pot on her Head by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler; Froggy Plays Soccer by Jonathan London; Tico and the Golden Wings by Leo Lionni; Chester the Worldly Pig by Bill Peet; ABC by Cyndy Szekeres; The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin by Joe Troiano; Indian Two Feet and His Horse by Margaret Friskey; Buttons Buttons by Rozanne Lanczak Williams; The Spike Tailed Dinosaur by Michael Berenstain; Yoko’s Butterfly Kite by Lin Oliver; A Special Trick by Merger Mayer; Illinois by Allan Fowler; Moon game by Frank Asch; Mother Goose Rhymes; Curious George Rides A Bike by H. A. Rey; Ducks Don’t Get Wet by Augusta Goldin; My House by Richard Scarry; Elsina’s Clouds by Jeanette Winter; Planet Earth by Kenneth C. Davis; I Need A Hug by Clara Barton School; Real Love by John Lennon; The Littles to the Rescue by John Peterson; My Brother Louis Measures Worms by Barbara Robinson; Chicken Soup With Rice by Maurice Sendak; No Parents Day by Annie Auerbach; The Foxman by Gary Paulsen; What a Bad Dream by Mercer Mayer; Juan Bobo by Jan Mike; The Crocodile and the Dentist by Taro Gomi; In Trouble Again, Zelda Hammersmith?; The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner; Pilgrim Stroies by Margaret Pumphrey; and The Wonderful O by James Thurber.
The Pookai Project’s mission is to help the restoration of Cambodia by gathering funds and need-specific books for the nation’s libraries. These donations will promote literacy, accelerate education, speed economic development and empower Cambodians to take their place on the world stage. Its first client is the Angsoeng Library, run by leading journalist Chandara Lor.