First of all, I would like to thank all of you who had contributed all your time, effort and generous contribution to our project. Coming to America made me see a bright future of our project. During my visit, the following commitments have been achieved.
- Thrift Books have committed to donate any number of books which we can absorb. I would like to thank Hector Rivas for his generous commitment to fulfill our project. Our Myanmar libraries will be filled with numerous category of books ranging fro children books to academic books.
- I also would like to thank with Carolyn Aamot, Gifts and Exchange Librarian from University of Washington, for her generous donation of books. All of University books are highly academic books and most of our Myanmar librarians are so excited to receive these books. We had donated many of them from our first container and they were well received.
- I also would like to thank Dave Richards and Clair Jenkins for your valuable advice on how we can continue to proceed with this project. Valuable ideas were exchanged yesterday on 11th February 2009 and it is such a wonderful time to see all of you to help our Myanmar libraries.
- Finally, I would like to thank to John for your various arrangements and contributions. I must commit that we are now seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. Receiving US Department of Treasury’s “OFAC” license is the major breakthrough of our project.
As we all agreed, we will be raising some fund by selling 10% of all the donated books in Myanmar. Our first charity book bazaar will start from 18th to 22nd of February and we will be selling at quite reasonable price. The theme of this charity fair is “Right Books to the Right People”. By doing this, we will get the following benefits:
- We can raise funds so that we can (a) cover portion of freight and (b) we can buy Myanmar language books which we will be able to donate to children’s schools library along with our English language children books.
- Since we will be selling with very reasonable prices, our local people can get the books according to their needs.
- Our project will have awareness to our local Myanmar people of what we are currently doing. Proper media coverage will be made in Myanmar as well.
Finally again, I would like to thank to all of you who had contributed your efforts, time and generous contributions.
Thant
Dr. Thant Thaw Kaung
Secretary
Myanmar Book Aid and Preservation Foundation
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