Starting in July, members of the Greater Memphis branch collected and organized books to donate to the African Library Project, which helps provide books to children in Africa. Members created posters, organized book drives in various neighborhoods, set up book drops, collaborated with local libraries and community centers, and sorted and organized the collected books. In total, over 1200 books were collected. The books are for grades K-8th, and are meant to provide entertainment but also education for children.
07/01/2023 :Joshua Dong and Eric Chen (5hrs/each)
Make poster, design flyer and print, put in the mail box of neigborhood.
07/26/2023 and 7/27/2023: Yuqi Chen, Norah Tsoi, Eric Chen, Annette, Elliot (3.75hrs/each)
Go to Collierville library, Germantown library, 2 organizations and Cordova Community Center and library to ask help and collect books.
07/31/2023: Eric Chen, Joshua Dong and Audry Jin
Make book drive posters. (2.5hrs)
08/02/2023: Eric Chen, Joshua Dong and Audry Jin
Go to Central library to ask for help and explain Africa library project. (1.5hrs)
08/03/2023 Eric Chen, Joshua Dong and Audry Jin
Go to Hickory Hill Community Center, Mc Farland Community Center, Marion Hale Community Center, Whitehaven Community Center, Radolph library, Parkway village library, Officer Geoffrey library, Central Library, Gaston Park library, Cossitt library to ask help and collect lots of books. (4.5hrs/each)
08/03/2023 Eric Chen
Separate books k-8grade from all collected books.(0.5hrs)
09/16/2023: Eric Chen(2.5hrs), Elliot Chen(1.5hrs), Yuqi Chen(1.5hrs), Josh Dong and Audry Jin(2hrs/each)
Separate books from 4-8grade to divide 2 groups to k-4 grade and 4-8 grade
09/23/2023: Eric Chen(3hrs),Audry Jin(2hrs), Ella Chen(1h)
Go to Collierville library to collect books from book fair. They put the left over k-8 grade books in the box and transported to our car. Eric still helped to clean after the book fair in the library.
11/04/2023 Eric Chen and Joshua Dong( 2.5hrs/each)
Package boxes of k-4 grade
11/11/2023 Eric Chen (4hrs), Joshua Dong (0.5hrs), Annette Chen(4.15hrs), Elliot Chen (3.5hrs), Audry Jin(3.5hrs)
Package left boxes of k-4grade and pick out non-qualified books.
They totally packaged 9 boxes, 563 books of k-4 grade.
11/14/2023 Eric Chen (0.5hrs)
Put the 9 boxes and ship them in the post office.
11/18/2023 Eric Chen (1.5hrs), Joshua Dong(1.5hrs)
Package boxes of 4-8 grade books.
11/19/2023 Eric Chen (4hrs), Ryan Call (3.5hrs)
Package left boxes of 4-8 grade books.
They totally packaged 13 boxes and 500 books of 4-8 grade.
11/20 Eric Chen (0.45hrs)
Put the 13 boxes in the car and ship them in the post office.
