Sharing the Joy of Reading with the African Child
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Leila Osman of Ottawa, Ontario, spent one month at the Kathy Knowles Community Library in Accra (more) |
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Stephi Bell of Ottawa, Ontario, spent one month at the Kathy Knowles Community Library in Accra (more) |
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Susie Sarrasin of St. Malo, Manitoba, spent three weeks in Goi and left part of her heart there. (more) |
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Janet Hogarth of Collingwood, Ontario, spent one month in Goi at their new library. (more) |
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Emilie Wall of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, spent one month in Goi, a small fishing village one hour from Accra. (more) |
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Christine Jacobs, a librarian from Montreal, Quebec, spent part of her sabbatical in Ghana volunteering in a school library in Ho. (more) |
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Zani Showler of Ottawa, Ontario, spent four months volunteering at the Nungua Community Library in Accra. (more) |
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Rosanna Nicol of Ottawa, Ontario, spent four months volunteering at the Mamprobi Gale Community Library in Accra. (more) |
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Linda Hyde from St. Albert, Alberta, returned to Goi for a second visit in two years. (more) |
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Noreen Mian from Winnipeg, Manitboa, stayed in Goi for six months and introduced a Reading Tree! (more) |
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Beth Ford from London, Ontario, spent eight months as a CIDA-sponsored intern at the Nungua Community Library. (more) |
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Linda Hyde from St. Albert, Alberta, volunteered for one month in Goi. (more) |
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Laurel Hansen of Ospringe, Ontario, spent three months volunteering at the Kathy Knowles Community Library in Accra. (more) |
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Strong volunteer supportIn Canada, the OCLF is run completely by volunteers. Kathy Knowles, the volunteer director from Winnipeg, leads a team of volunteers who sort, clean and pack books for shipment, and to handle annual appeals for funds and related correspondence.
Lennard Corporation of Calgary administers the financial records, issues tax receipts and handles government-required documentation to maintain OCLF's charitable status. A five-member volunteer board of directors meets annually in Calgary.
Kathy Knowles is the founder and Program Director. She is a graduate in nursing from Queen’s University and lived in Ghana from 1989 to 1993. Now based in Winnipeg, she visits Ghana twice yearly to monitor existing projects and to help initiate new ones.
Kathy Knowles' bio
In Ghana, Florence Adjepong (l) and Emma Amoo-Gottfried, both school headmistresses and directors of the OCLF, contribute sound leadership and direction, by overseeing projects and enlisting financial support from the Ghanaian community.
Who we are | History | Libraries | Librarians | Members | Volunteers | Recognition