Kingwood Rotarians Volunteer at "Rotary Books for the World" Project Book Sorting
Rotary Books for the World International Literacy Project
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What happens to outdated educational books when school districts replace them with new ones? School districts pay to shred them, and then pay for the shredded books be taken to the landfill. Rotary's Books for the World Project is an international service project started by Rotarians here in the Houston area which rescues them from the
landfill and ships them (ALMOST 10 MILLION BOOKS TO DATE) to Rotary clubs in other countries for distribution to schools, teachers, and libraries that don't have books.
Rotary clubs throughout the USA know about this project, so they now transport the books here and donate them to Rotary Books for the World. For 13 years, Kingwood Rotarians Charlie and Tommie Buscemi have donated their services to handle the international freight forwarding of the 40' container shipments overseas.
When they arrive, they need to be sorted into different categories like children, reading, classroom, foreign language, reference, and college level reference books.
Each month, our high school Interact clubs and other organizations spend 2-hours sorting the books so they can be palletized and shrink wrapped prior to the warehouse loading them into 40' ocean shipping containers for shipment overseas.
Kingwood Rotarians Charlie and Tommie Buscemi, and Brian Dusalbon and his daughter, Megan, helped sort books with 65 other volunteers.