Oct. 12, 2003
ROCKFORD, Ill. – The Pookai Book Project Sent Cambodian-English dictionaries, children’s book and French books along with $200 in their fifth donation of the year to the Angsoeng Library in Takeo, Cambodia.
The books were: Popeye by Heritage Editions; Les Contes de Marie Tenaille by Marie Tenaille; French for Children by Berlitz; Histoires d’animaux by Gisele Caumont et al; Martine by Gilbert Delahaye & Marcel Marlier; C’est de la prose by Valette & Morgenroth; Panorama du Theatre Nouveau by Jacques G. Benay & Reinhard Kuhn; Let’s Learn About France by Passport Books; A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne; Home Game by Harris, Matteoni & Anderson; Growing Up Reading by Linda Leonard Lamme; French Short Stories by Penguin Books; Lonesome Born by Harris, Matteoni & Anderson; My Puppy is Born by Joanna Cole; Sparkly Day by Helen Stephens; The Oxford Picture Dictionary English / Cambodian by Norma Shapiro & Jayme Adelson-Goldstein; and The Oxford Picture Dictionary (Monolingual) by Norma Shapiro & Jayme Adelson-Goldstein.
The Pookai Book Project sends a donation every other month to the Angsoeng Library. Its final donation of the year will be in December.
The Pookai Project’s mission is to help the restoration of Cambodia by gathering funds and need-specific books for the nation’s libraries. These donations will promote literacy, accelerate education, speed economic development and empower Cambodians to take their place on the world stage. Its first client is the Angsoeng Library, run by leading journalist Chandara Lor.