While volunteering in Tanzania, my wife and I got the idea of what we call a "street library" because children in our neighbourhood were able to read but had no 1at all.
We had an idea to make books 2to local children who wanted to read. We 3a famous international charity for collecting money. We 4 books in three book stores of the capital city. My wife Sue 5 all , 180 books with sticky-backed paper to keep them clean. A local man made some 6 to store the books. I made some a "library cards" and 7with a tailor called Saddiqi, who agreed to keep the boxes in his 8and to run the library. The library was 9to open!
Anyone could 10 with their name and their parent's mobile phone number, Saddiqi gave them a 11 with a number, with which they could read the books only in his shop. I decided it was better to do that than let readers 12 the books. There is no 13 to join the library. Within five days we had over 100 14 and more were joining each day! Even though the books are 15 for children in different, grades of difficulty, 16 were using the library for free, too.
This side-project was, I think, one of the most 17 things we did in Tanzania. It was in some way a thank-you gift to our18 for welcoming us so warmly into their lives，. The whole19worked together on the street library and that's surely part of the reason it is still 20 after we left.
