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Group donates tens of thousands of books to children in Africa Share Updated: 10:25 PM CST Dec 18, 2020 By Jessica Battista Share Updated: 10:25 PM CST Dec 18, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript If you pass by the Georgia Ports Authority on Wednesday morning, you would have seen this. A special container on its way Toe Africa Container has over 32,000 books, 32,000 books, all donated by libraries for kids, an organization started by Roy Austin. I sat with him. I talk to them. I saw how hungry they are. Toe learn, hungry to learn. But with limited school. Resource is Roy came home from his trip from Africa when motivation to make a change, seeing the situation. And then he brought that story home to us and got a number of people involved by donating money and books will provide by textbooks for them because it is very common for 20 to 30 students have to share one book. And if students do not have textbooks, teachers have to get creative, took sheets of cloth on painted things on a pictures of chairs or tables or the alphabet or numbers Thio use to teach that situation, Roy says. We do not have to worry about here in the United States. Don't take for granted all the blessings that we have here in this country. Reporting in Savannah, Jessica Batista, W J. C. L 22 News
Bluffton man's group donates 22,000 books to needy children in Africa A Bluffton man returned from Africa eager to help the many kids he encountered who were hungry to learn but didn't have textbooks. Share Updated: 1:08 PM EST Dec 18, 2020 By Jessica Battista Bluffton man's group donates 22,000 books to needy children in Africa A Bluffton man returned from Africa eager to help the many kids he encountered who were hungry to learn but didn't have textbooks. Share Updated: 1:08 PM EST Dec 18, 2020 Hide Transcript Show Transcript If you pass by the Georgia Ports Authority on Wednesday morning, you would have seen this. A special container on its way Toe Africa Container has over 32,000 books, 32,000 books, all donated by libraries for kids, an organization started by Roy Austin. I sat with him. I talk to them. I saw how hungry they are. Toe learn, hungry to learn. But with limited school. Resource is Roy came home from his trip from Africa when motivation to make a change, seeing the situation. And then he brought that story home to us and got a number of people involved by donating money and books will provide by textbooks for them because it is very common for 20 to 30 students have to share one book. And if students do not have textbooks, teachers have to get creative, took sheets of cloth on painted things on a pictures of chairs or tables or the alphabet or numbers Thio use to teach that situation, Roy says. We do not have to worry about here in the United States. Don't take for granted all the blessings that we have here in this country. Reporting in Savannah, Jessica Batista, W J. C. L 22 News