‘Education is change’, so why not give some change?

Tom, of The Library Project, sits down with Lost Laowai and gives us the skinny on this excellent cause helping bring books, and change, to impoverished areas of China.

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Successful Charity Event for The Library Project 1 year 1 week ago

The University of Maryland's Smith School of Business in Shanghai held a very successful charity fundraiser for The Library Project on November 24, 2007.

With the help of over twenty corporate and individual sponsors, the Smith School was able to donate over 45,000 RMB ($6,000 USD) to The Library Project. This very generous donation will help The Library Project provide books and furniture to six countryside elementary schools in China.

The Library Project completes twelve rural elementary school libraries 45 weeks 6 days ago

The Library Project is very excited to announce that they have provided twelve elementary school libraries in less than a month throughout China. The Library Project donated thousands of Chinese language children’s books, as well as tables, chairs, plants, globes, and children’s dictionaries. Librarian training was provided at each library with hopes that it will substantially improve the education children will receive at each elementary school.

The Library Project donates 60 libraries 6 weeks 2 days ago

Over the past year The Library Project donated over sixty libraries to rural elementary schools throughout China. 14,581 elementary school students benefited from over 57,200 children’s books...

The Library Project makes commitment to improve their first school district in China 1 year 2 weeks ago

The Library Project will be donating thousands of Chinese language children’s books, hundreds of tables and chairs, plants, globes, children’s dictionaries, and providing librarian training to an entire school district in the ShaanXi Province.

A conversation between The Library Project and The China Business Network 43 weeks 5 days ago

This is a 10 minute conversation with the founder of The Library Project and Christine Lu of The China Business Network. They talked about The Library Project, some of the difficulties doing business in China that they encounter, their most recent successes, and their future libraries that they will be providing. Happy listening!

The Library Project: Gift Cards 51 weeks 2 days ago

Gift Cards! This holiday season give the gift of children's books to an elementary school in China. Gift cards come in 50, 100, 250 and 500 book amounts. Each book costing 8 yuan.

Introducing KarmaSense, a positive alternative to Google AdSense 51 weeks 3 days ago

KarmaSense is a positive alternative to Google’s AdSense for your website or blog. The Library Project, a small charity that provides books to elementary schools in the countryside of China developed KarmaSense to help raise awareness of their good works. They need your help.

Group Writing Project: If I Knew Then What I Know Now 1 year 25 weeks ago

Ryan announces a group writing project over at Lost Laowai, aimed at the Chinese Blogosphere. The topic?

If I knew then what I knew now.

What do you know now that you wish you knew before you arrived in China? Write a post, and contribute to what will likely be a great guide for Laowai-to-be coming to China.

Hao Hao Gets Sociable 1 year 43 weeks ago

The Hao Hao Report has been added to the latest version of the excellent WordPress plugin - Sociable. The plugin allows blog owners to easily add a collection of icons to their posts making the addition of their articles to various social bookmarking sites (such as this) a breeze.

To see this in action - check out any of the posts at the Lost Laowai Blog.