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This project is completed. Project listed for the 2008-09 Rotary Year. The Matching Grant application number from TRF is #69054. The TRF Staff in charge of this grant is Stephen Colek (stephen.copek@rotary.org).
<22-Sep-08> System Entry
Creation of project page.
<3-Nov-08> System Entry
Pledge of $200 by Kris McVicar of the Rotary Club of NE Portland, District 5100.
<3-Nov-08> System Entry
Pledge of $5,000 by Warren Banks of the Rotary Club of Portland, District 5100.
<3-Nov-08> System Entry
Pledge of $1,000 by Bill Cozart of the Rotary Club of West Salem, District 5100.
<3-Nov-08> System Entry
Pledge of $50 by Tiffany Salzman of the Rotary Club of Forest Grove Daybreak, District 5100.
<18-Dec-08> System Entry
Grant paperwork sent to The Rotary Foundation.
<1-Mar-09> System Entry
Grant approved by The Rotary Foundation.
<2-Sep-09> by Joyce Lockard
20-Apr-09 TRF sent $50,925 to Beaverton Rotary Foundation.
21-Aug-09 Beaverton Rotary Foundation sent $21,600 to Atlas Cargo in Kampala for trucking of 4x40 ft containers carrying 160,330 lb of used textbooks from Mombasa to Gulu. The shipment originated in OR and is due in Mombasa on Sept. 12.
<25-Sep-09> by Joyce Lockard
$9175 sent on 9-22-09 by electronic transfer to acct. of Gulu Rotary Club for expenses of storing, sorting and distributing books to schools. Outstanding bills were paid to two Kampala shipping companies for transport and storage on a shipment that reached Mombasa in March.
<3-Oct-09> by Joyce Lockard
Four 40 ft containers of used textbooks that had been donated by Bookbyte in Salem and Don Lackey Books in Harrisburg OR in July arrived in Mombasa on Sept. 12, enroute to Gulu Rotary Club in northern Uganda. The containers were trucked about a thousand miles from Mombasa to Gulu in northern Uganda in the last week of September. Transportation and clearing of the shipment through the port of Mombasa and through Uganda customs were carried out efficiently and quickly by Atlas Cargo of Kampala for a charge of $5400 per container, paid with MG69054 funds.
<19-Jan-10> by Joyce Lockard
Four 40 ft shipping containers carrying 170,000 lb of used textbooks from Beaverton Rotary Club were delivered to Gulu Rotary Club in N Uganda in Sept. Five workers and a supervisor have worked five days a week for three months to sort the books prior to distribution. Rotarians, Rotaractors and volunteers help when possible. More than 90% of the books have been distributed. Most of them went to multiple schools, some as far as 70 miles from Gulu. College textbooks went into the library of the young Gulu University. A volunteer from Portland is in Gulu helping sort and distribute books and sending photos.
<17-Feb-10> by Joyce Lockard
Sixty thousand used K-12 school textbooks that were in the shipment received by Gulu Rotary Club in Sept 2009 have been distributed to 142 primary and secondary schools in the northern region of Uganda.
<3-Mar-10> by Joyce Lcokard
One 40'shipping container of used textbooks was sent off to the Rotary Club of Gulu on Feb 24, 2010. It carried 42,510 lb of used primary and secondary school and college textbooks plus one used library card cabinet. Transportation charges from Oregon to Mombasa have been paid by the DoD Funded Transportation Program that ships humanitarian aid for non-profits in the US free of charge. Overland trucking of the shipment for nearly a thousand miles from Mombasa to Gulu in northern Uganda will be paid with funds from MG69054, to which ten Rotary clubs and two Rotary districts contributed. The trucking charge will be $5375.
<31-Mar-10> by Joyce Lcokard
The 40 ft shipping container of used school and college textbooks sent to Gulu Rotary Club in northern Uganda on Feb 24 is expected to arrive in the Kenyan port of Mombasa on April 28. $5705 in MG funds have been sent by Beaverton Rotary Foundation to Atlas Cargo Shipping Co. in Kampala to pay for clearing the shipment through the port of Mombasa and trucking it to Gulu in northern Uganda. The consignee, Gulu Rotary Club, is planning how to store, sort and distribute the 42,510 lb of books in the shipment. Free shipping from Oregon to Mombasa was provided by the US Government's DoD Funded Transportation Program, but overland shipping has had to be paid with MG funds.
<25-May-10> by Joyce Lockard
The fifth 40 ft container of books was shipped from Tigard OR on Feb 24 and unloaded in Mombasa on the coast of Kenya at the end of April. Like the first four container, it was to be trucked about 900-1000 miles to the Gulu Rotary Club in northern Uganda. The truck engine broke down somewhere in Kenya and the container has been stranded on the roadside for about two weeks. The trucking company is supplying an armed guard to keep the shipment safe while repairs are being organized.
<3-Jul-10> by Joyce Lockard
An Interim Report was submitted to TRF and accepted. The fifth 40 ft container of used textbooks, carrying 42,500 lb of books shipped from Oregon, was received by Gulu Rotary Club in May 2010. The books are now being sorted and distributed to multiple schools and the library of Gulu University. With this latest shipment, the MG objective of sending 100 tons of used textbooks for distribution in northern Uganda has been accomplished. TRF agreed that residual funds in the MG could be used to purchase new textbooks published in Uganda.
<16-Mar-11> by Joyce Lockard
Gul Rotary Club, the host partner club, provided a list of 140 schools that received books shipped with the help of this grant, and distribution had not been completed. Because an access road was repaired that permitted trucking of the shipping containers directly from the eastern border of Uganda to Gulu, without going through Kampala, the cost of overland transportation for the last of the shipping containers of used textbooks was less than expected and a few thousand dollars of MG money was left over. Permission was sought and obtained from TRF to spend the left-over funds to buy textbooks published in Kampala that were in the Uganda Ministry of Education's curriculum. The process of purchase and distribution of those books to schools in the northern region that were short of textbooks is underway but not yet completed as of mid-March 2011.
<14-Sep-11> System Entry
Grant status changed to "Completed".
<14-Sep-11> by Dr. Joyce Lockard
The Final Report was submitted to TRF on Sept. 12 and approved on Sept. 13, 2011. Used textbooks sent by this project are helping hundreds of thousands of children get better educations, many of them older kids who were deprived of any schooling during the twenty year war waged by the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda. 70% of the books in Gulu University library came through this book project. It has been estimated that each book will be read by about 20 children before it is worn out, so the 150,000-200,000 textbooks that were sent by this project will be used by an estimated 3-4 million children. The books were donated free by schools, college faculty and students and many individuals. Delivery and distribution costs paid by this grant were about 25 to 33 cents per textbook.
<14-Sep-11> by Dr. Joyce Lockard
Final Report submitted Sept. to TRF on Sept. 12 2011 and Letter of Approval received Sept. 13 2011. Three documents uploaded: Final Report, Letter of Approval from TRF and List of Recipients of books.
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