Our partners are an important part of our program and we appreciate their support!
Royal Bank of Canada- Distribution of books on family islands and a donation of more than 1400 books from cruise winners
Ms Louise Meadows and her team at RBC - for handling all the shipping to the Family islands
Post Boxes Etc - providing collection boxes at their stores
Lyford Cay International School- school house competition resulted in
1500 books being donated in Fall 2008 and again in fall 2009! Well Done!!
Jan and Ineke Daniels- The Daniels have set up a book-collection center for Read Bahamas in Moorestown, New Jersey, USA. They are collecting books from libraries and individuals in that area and taking care of transportation of the books to Read Bahamas. More than 1,000 books have been collected in the first three months!!
Ian Goodfellow of Goodfellow Farms in Nassau - shipping of books from Florida
John Wightman of Lakeview Books in Burlington, Ontario - contributed many boxes of quality children's books
Kris Propp of New Jersey who donated a wonderful selection of books
The Friends of the Cinnaminson Library for their donation of books
Mr. James Morel of Second Time Books in New Jersey for his donations and discounts of books for this project
The Royal Society of St George ( Nassau Branch) donated sets of the King School series and the Bluford High Series of books for several family island schools.
Daughters of the American Revolution -Bahamas Chapter(DAR) donated several boxes of primary books
Thank you all for your support!
Ms Louise Meadows and Mr Origin Deleveaux
at Royal Bank... with some of the boxes they ship
to family islands
Althea McCartney of Post Boxes Etc with a book donation
Lyford Cay School International students
with their book donation
Jan and Ineke Daniels with a large book donation
"A Room without books is like a body without a soul"
Cicero (106 BC- 43 BC)