Needs

Many of you have asked about needs here in Lesotho.  I cannot thank all of you enough for all the coffee, coloring books, nuts and all of the other wonderful gifts that you have sent.  I am grateful for those of you who have sent money knowing full well that postage is always around $70 per package and usually takes about two months to receive.

Books are still much needed.  I have set up a little library and we only have about 40 books and many of them are not books suitable to be read to the little guys.

Here is a link from the Darien Book Aid that clarifies how to send books cheaply to Peace Corps Volunteers: http://www.darienbookaid.org/us-peace-corps-requests.html

We mostly need easy readers that are hardback.  Even the little ones that you first buy for your kids.  All non-fiction books with great pictures work well.  My school is a Catholic school so all kids like religious books as well but Halloween and other type books are highly frowned upon. I would really love to have brought my children's praise books that I used for Religious Ed some time ago. I hope this gives you a bit more of an idea of books to send.

I was asked where to get crayons and for the life of me, I have yet to see them here.  I probably could buy them in Maseru (the Capitol City), but we are no allowed to travel to Maseru as the elections approach.  I think about the HUGE box of crayons that I had kept from the early years of my kids (who are now 28 and 25) which I just gave away - - wish I had brought it along. So if you would like to fill Ziploc bags with crayons to fill voids in packages, that would be great.

Thanks again to all!