Donors

It was a Buddhist monk who once said that "Kindness is the courage to care".

On behalf of all of those people who benefit from your actions we thank for your generocity and we are grateful for your courage.

We would very much like to thank the Partners and staff at Pinsent Masons who have accpeted us as one of their nominated charitys. Their corporate responsibility policy is directed at "Inspiring Young Lives"  and is called Starfish

A young child’s route to school took him along a beach. Each day the child would pick up starfish that had been washed up on the shore and toss them back into the ocean. One day a neighbour asked the child, “Why bother? There are so many – surely it doesn’t matter?” The child looked at the starfish in his hand and said, “It matters to this one.” And he threw it back into the ocean.

"We would like to thank Saj and his team at Spall (www.spall.com) for the kind donation of sports kits to the Waangwaray community.

Having a kit brings individuals together as a team and this is core to our belief in self help. With the community working together we can achieve great heights but the first step is creating that unity. This we are achieving through a number of initiatives and one of which is sport.

We would also like to thank the Football Association for their kind donation of England football shirts for the kids and community at Waangwaray.

The Livingstone Tanzania Trust would like to thank Initaive, Clerkenwell Green, London, for their support in developing our language labs through the donation to date of 58 computers and the pledge of a further 20 computers, each with new hard drives and keyboards. Not only is this an excellent way of recycling computers, it offers a great boost the students in our schools who will be working with up to date technology and be able to develop new skills that help them in the struggle to educate themselves out of poverty.

We are looking forward to a long and friendly relationship with Initaive.

The language labs will enable the students to learn English at their own speed and also get accustomed to different accents and pronunciations of words, which is a huge advantage.

We are delighted to have received assistance from Gillian Porter at "Little Eco" (www.littleeco.com) who have provided us with some fantastic baby cloths

READ International began in 2003 as a group of student friends at university with a vision to change the world.
A gap year experience had left this group of students so shocked by the lack of resources in Tanzanian schools that they were compelled to do something about it.

So, these students went about contacting their local secondary schools and collecting books. In the first year (2004/5) they collected 40,000 books which they sorted according to strict criteria (only good quality, relevant books allowed). In summer 2005 they sent 25,000 books to 20 schools in Tanzania, financing the entire process themselves. In summer 2006 they did the same - 25,000 more textbooks sent to a further 20 schools in Tanzania.

It made so much sense that the students couldn't let it go. They registered as a charity - READ International - and so our work began. 

The book project has gone from strength to strength with 5 universities coming on board in 2006, and a further 5 in 2007 which took us to a total of 11.
This Autumn we are expanding even more which will take us to 16 projects and 22 universities involved.

I met with Robert Wilson, the director, earlier in the year and we were elighted to find common ground. As a result in September we collected from Singida our first batch of over 400 books for the Kwaraa Secondary School, a brand new secondary school that is desperately short of books. It is the secondary school the kids from Wangwaray will go to.  We are delighted with this link and hope it will work for many years to come

For further details please go to www.readinternational.co.uk