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27Mar
2011

2011-2013 NLR Funding and Program Goals

in About the Project, Donations, Friends of NLR

  Report by our ad-hoc committee:  John Badgley, Roger Paget, and Jack Simpson, with appended comment by Dave Richards WE ARE A UNIQUE ORGANIZATION – AN ACCOMPLISHMENT IN ITSELF NLR’s greatest achievement may be simply “opening up” Myanmar to more involvement, showing that even with sanctions and the bad feeling between the US and Myanmar, a small lightly funded organization from the US can make a big difference. Our opinion is supported by these facts: We have developed constructive relationships [...]

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2Apr
2009

April Newsletter

in Newsletter
April Newsletter

Think of an aircraft carrier, or a 747 hanger, or maybe the Seattle Convention Center: enormous, huge, very, very big! Thrift Books has rented four cavernous, hollow structures like this. One near Auburn, Washington, the other three are scattered across America and each are filling with millions of books from collection boxes or purchased for a song from Halfprice Books or schools and college bookstores, or remainders from commercial publishers. I walked into their Northwest cavern near Emerald Downs, our [...]

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5Mar
2009

Friends of Nargis Library Recovery Project

in Friends of NLR

FRIENDS OF NARGIS LIBRARY RECOVERY PROJECT In recognition of those who have made this project possible, and with expectation that their leadership will attract others willing to take responsibility for this vitally important feature of the society’s recovery, we have created a list of donors: corporate, family and individuals. We intend to maintain this project until Myammar’s delta libraries are functioning fully, providing the millions of Burmese living in the delta region with books and access to global knowledge. CORPORATE [...]

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17Feb
2009

1,000,000 books donated by Thrift Books

in Donations

We are extremely excited to announce that Thrift Books has just donated 1 million books to the Nargis Library Recovery project! This is an amazing and humbling commitment beyond our wildest dreams when we launched NLR just a few months ago.  This gives us book supply for about 20 container shipments to fill libraries destroyed by the Nargis cyclone in Myanmar! Here is an excerpt from an email from Hector Rivas, CEO of Thrift Books: My company, Thrift Books, has [...]

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12Feb
2009

Myanmar Book Aid On Right Track !!

in About the Project

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 [...]

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