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The Library Mission is a grassroots project that is working to establish a quality library inside La Chureca, the city dump of Managua, Nicaragua. We could use your help! =]
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Library Mission Mission: A Library in La Chureca

English - Library, Charity, Nonprofit
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Library Mission · 1Y ago

Blog Address Moving

Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I’m moving The Library Mission blog to a blogspot domain. The new url will be www.TheLibraryMission.blogspot.com I love wordpress, but there are a few features that better suit the blog’s needs there. Please update your bookmarks accordingly–I alrea
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Library Mission · 1Y ago

A Brief Recap

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Library Mission · 1Y ago

We’re Back!

I’m enjoying a leisurely evening at home with my siblings, recovering from the day of travel. The past two weeks were incredible. There’s so much to cover, and I’ll get to some of it later once I have photos to add. (With 1400+ transferring as I type, it will be a while.) Wednesday, August 4th, [...
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Library Mission · 1Y ago

Impending Departure

Today was Salt’s final Nicaragua meeting in its entirety. Several other Salt students are leaving for Nicaragua in the wee hours of Sunday morning with Light Company. The rest of them will join us August 1. All of the books will be going with Salt’s trip. Please pray that the luggage they are travel
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Library Mission · 1Y ago

Recent Additions

There is this incredible place called SCARCE, and this is their mission: “SCARCE is dedicated to educating students, teachers, residents, businesses, and the general public to conserve natural resources and energy, prevent pollution, reduce waste, recycle, and compost organic materials, so that toge
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Library Mission · 1Y ago

Updates

I’ll be leaving for Nicaragua in 18 days–the 25th. Here a some things that have changed: I’m nixing the book laminate and instead going for the significantly cheaper rolls of clear packing tape. This can be used to repair and reinforce pages as well as bindings, and it can be used for a myriad of [.
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Library Mission · 1Y ago

More Than 200 Books

There were a bunch of books donated and now we have more than 200 books. This milestone is a particularly special one to me because LibraryThing, the site I use to keep track of all the books, only lets free members store up to that many. So, my sister donated the $25 dollars that was [...]
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Library Mission · 2Y ago

More Books

As I type, my sister is looking through some of the newest donated books. A couple weeks ago a guy from my youth group–Miguel–donated a bunch and I found out today that another student–Curtis–collected a bunch as well. I just got back from youth group and brought the box with me to catalog. =] Check
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Library Mission · 2Y ago

Facebook URL

This is fairly straightforward. You no longer have to search for the Library Mission page or click the badge on the sidebar. You can now go directly to www.Facebook.com/LibraryMission to visit us there. =] On a side note, I took part in a conference call yesterday. Marcia–who has a ton on her plate–
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Library Mission · 2Y ago

Mission Trip Prep – More Details

I mentioned earlier how my youth group broke into groups to plan various aspects of our forthcoming trip. We had our second breakout session yesterday, and I have a bit more detailed outline of our Library Mission project. Bob and I threw around some numbers and came up with a current projection of
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