Helping to prepare and pack some 100 books for shipment to Uganda at Aspen Elementary School. Courtesy photo

Children at Aspen Elementary School help pack books for the African Library Project. Courtesy photo

BY SHARON ALLEN
African Library Project

The amazing K-Kids Club at Aspen School just completed collecting, packing, and shipping of 20 boxes of over 1000 books to make a library for Innovation Primary Community Library in Uganda, Africa. Thanks to their hard work, an enitre community will have access to books where there were none before!

The kids started raising money for this project last year by selling See’s lollipops and having a bake sale, and this year added to their funds by selling popcorn. Club treasurer, Abby (who has been helping her “grandma Sharon” with the African Library Project since the age of 2!), completed the final details of the shipment by paying in cash with club funds at the Los Alamos post office on October 29.     

 Aspen’s K-Kids Club, whose motto is to “make the world a better place in which to live”,  is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos, supported by Kiwanian Don Casperson, and advised by Rachel Bartram, Aspen staff member. The entire comunity’s support of this project is to be commended and celebrated!   

Completing the final paperwork for shipment. Courtesy photo

Loading boxes of books at the Post Office. Courtesy photo