The UPS Foundation recently donated $1,500 to an “Ethiopia Reads” project, created by Robert Quade, Centenary’s professor emeritus and founder of the college’s wrestling team. This goal was to collect and ship about 1,500 children’s books and textbooks to Ethiopia by the end of this summer. As a result of the work by Quade and Centenary’s wrestling team, which adopted this project as its cause, the goal has already been exceeded. The cost to ship these materials will be $2,500, so money provided to “Ethiopia Reads” effort by the UPS Foundation will help. “Ethiopia Reads” creates a reading culture in Ethiopia by connecting children with books. The founder of this charity, Yohannes Gebregeorgis, was named a 2008 “Top Ten Hero” by CNN.
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Gusto wrote on Jul 14, 2009 11:34 AM:
" this is wonderful.. I just made a small donations to Ethiopia Reads on their website.. keep up the great work y'all. "
