GENEROSITY ABOUNDS

School holidays may be on but that hasn’t slowed down the many amazing book donations or hardworking volunteers at Books 4 PNG Kids’ Brisbane factory.

A big shout out to generous book donors including publisher Biozone for their donation of about 500 cartons of brand-new year 11 & 12 science textbooks,

Brisbane southside Girl Guides and their families who donated to a book drive organised by 10-year-old Guide Claudia Prineas,

and the many schools, libraries and others who donate books to Books 4 PNG Kids.

Kudos to the guys from One Tribe Ministries’ No. 1 Team who put in a great effort labelling boxes of books bound for PNG schools. They were without their leader Alan Goode but they still showed why they’re the No. 1 team!

One Tribe Ministries (www.onetribeministries.com.au) helps prisoners in PNG gain skills to run small businesses and also has a literacy program that enables them to read within two weeks.

Many thanks to Biozone Learning Media Australia for more than 4,000 biology environmental science, anatomy & physiology and other textbooks.

Also pictured are book drive organiser Claudia who dropped off the books she'd collected with Camp Hill Girl Guides district manager Felomina Singh.

Claudia organised the book drive as part of her community service and collected books from more than 200 Guides and their families at a campfire-sausage sizzle at Wellington Point Guide Hut.

Claudia says some parents dropped their children off and then came back with books to donate.

Claudia’s school, Sts Peter and Paul’s Catholic School, Bulimba, also donated six boxes of library books.

Claudia is a devoted booklover but her Mum issued an ultimatum that helped the book drive.

“My bedroom has more books than the local library. My Mum said I had to get rid of some.”

And our thanks to all of our volunteers who sort and pack books each Friday and most Wednesdays at the factory at 39 Flanders St, Salisbury.

New volunteers are always welcome!

Lunch is provided. Just wear closed-in shoes.

These book donations will help PNG pupils such as those at Cape Sena SDA Primary School, Matalai LLG, Namatanai District, New Ireland Province, about 300km SE of Kavieng.

It has about 160 pupils and 6 teachers.