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Archive for August 12, 2011
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Sister Cyril of Calcutta
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| As principal of Loreto School in Calcutta, Irish Catholic nun Sister Cyril has worked some real-world miracles. Her school serves 1,500 female students, of which 721 are so poor that they need food, medicine, and even money to meet the rent. By bringing children together like this, she is showing a way for middle class schools to integrate the poor living around them into their educational mainstream, to their mutual benefit. When Sister Cyril was awarded the Padmashri, India’s highest civilian award, for having served over 450,000 street children, she was asked about her message to people. She immediately responded: “Give what you have received freely and the reward is hundred-fold.” |
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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
– Andrew Carnegie –
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The Pay-It-Forward Little Libraries
Bigger than a breadbox, homier than a newspaper box and more surprising than a bookmobile, the Little Library is popping up all over town. On bike paths. Outside coffee shops. In the front yards of private homes. Stocked with books ranging from academic texts to children’s classics, music instruction and gardening magazines, each two-by-two-foot Little Library bears the same simple message: “Take a book. Leave a book.” The brainchild of Rick Brooks of Madison and Todd Bol of Hudson, the Little Library has found a home in more than 20 spots in Wisconsin since last summer and is spreading to communities in states from Minnesota to New York. In an era of laptop screens and eBooks, happening upon a Little Library can have its own special magic. { read more }
Be The Change
Check out the “Build a Library” section of the Little Libraries website. { more } |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 