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The People in my "Neighbourhood"
…last week. Mike Weah (with the help of his wife Yvonne and others) runs the We-Care Library in Monrovia. He is the dynamic mastermind behind the Reading Liberia program that…
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What I Read on My Summer Vacation
…including those submitted for Reading Liberia, for our Nova Scotia writing workshop/retreat, and Brian Doyle‘s as yet unpublished memoir about his adventures and misadventures in education. That’s just a sampling…
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The First "Reading Liberia" Books
…their lives and for the writers and illustrators who created them! I first became involved in “Reading Liberia” two years ago, and I’m proud to have been part of a…
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Word from Liberia
…of the Reading Liberia program have now arrived in Monrovia! Yvonne, one of the founders of the program, wrote: Hello Kathy, Guess what! We have received the first four titles…
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"Lead with your heart"
…Reading Liberia a few years ago. It’s what produces a sense of compassion toward someone who might otherwise inspire impatience or irritation. I would probably do well to ‘lead with…
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Reading Liberia – June 2011
…Liberia. She is a prolific writer currently revising a manuscript, in hopes of publication with Reading Liberia one day. It’s about two kids from different tribes struggling to convince their…
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“An Intimate Examination of Sock Fluff” Part 3
…working with, in Liberia, since 2009, as a volunteer with a program called Reading Liberia. Certainly when I sat at my dining room table in 1981, writing what would become…
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Good News from Africa
…of Liberian stories being published as part of the Reading Liberia program, referred to in last week’s post. A publisher in Ghana is working with the We Care Foundation in…
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More Books for Liberian Children
…book Liberian children would love to learn to read for themselves. (That’s the point of the Reading Liberia program I became involved with in 2008. CODE has since helped expand…
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
…of the Reading Liberia program a few years ago, who are themselves working to raise awareness of how to stop the spread of ebola and distributing books to kids while…
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