7th May saw us journey to the Big Yellow Self Storage in Balham, London, to load up the collected books and send them on their long voyage to Tanzania.
Before the hard work began we feasted on volunteer leader Will's great oreo cheesecake and lemon drizzle cake which went down a treat!
Box-stairs were made to lift the individual boxes up into the container. An interesting job for someone like me with hardly any upper body strength! Boxes were stacked 5 high across the container with the most well packed and fullest boxes on the bottom. Next came the fork lift truck for Nottingham and Queen Mary's wrapped pallets of books. These were easier to load :D
The day was a brilliant success, and we were all really excited to say goodbye to the container before it was next opened in Dar es Salaam. It's great to know that I'll be opening up some of these boxes and putting them on shelves and into the hands of secondary school children in a school in Tanzania in a month. SO EXCITED.
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| We lock the container before its long journey! |
The READ Team!
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