Help for Resource Center in Artyom (fwd)

[Devin P Browne]

Don't know for sure if this is appropriate for this forum, but I thought
I'd send it along in case anyone out there is in a (rare!) position to
make a donation or two.

Devin P Browne
dpbrowne+ at pitt.edu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 02:01:50 -0400
From: Center for Civil Society International <ccsi at u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU
To: Multiple recipients of list <civilsoc at SOLAR.RTD.UTK.EDU>
Subject: Help for Resource Center in Artyom


Center for Civil Society International has received a request for
assistance from Konrad Thomas Reinhardt, a Peace Corps Volunteer working
as an English teacher in School 11 in Artyom, a city 40 km from
Vladivostok in the Russian Far East.  Please reply directly to him at
KONRAD at pub.marine.su, or at his snail mail address: 692800 Primorski Krai,
Artyom-10, P. O. Box 20, Reinhardt, Konrad.  He is only able to check his
e-mail once a week, however, because it is a two-hour trips to the
computer terminal.

The essence of his message is as follows:

Reinhardt has been granted a room at School # 11 and is in the process of
creating a resource center and also raising funds to purchase textbooks
for the school.  Books that exist are dated and often unsuitable for
teaching.  "Finding a Russian-English dictionary is an
impossibility...there is a great void in regards to English language
material."

What the resource center needs:

*Textbooks      *Readers        *Grammar books
*Posters/maps   *Picture books  *Activity books
*Standard dictionaries  *Russian-English/English/Russian dictionaries
*Info about America: cities, states, people, landscapes, culture, etc.

Reinhardt's goal is to have the resource center stocked and functioning by
May 1998.


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