Booking for Liberia: The Book Rescue Project, run by the School Recycling Assistance Program in Glen Ellyn, has been accepting and distributing used books for more than five years. Individuals and schools, from Glen Ellyn to many other parts of the world, have taken advantage of this program.
It was a first for the organization, however, when the Foundation for Peace and Stability in Liberia, located in Chicago, visited the group’s warehouse and emptied it of almost every book.
“We’ve had groups take lots of books, but it was over time,” said Cherie Doyle, who coordinates the program. “They took about 10,000 books, and all of these will help a country recovering from seven years of civil war.”
They left just one group of periodicals in the warehouse: hundreds of back issues of National Geographic.
