Wendy Jacobs, who works at Waitohi in Johnsonville, was approached early last year by a customer, who was looking to send withdrawn library books to her old primary school in Zimbabwe.
“We were in the planning stage when lockdown hit us so everything was put on hold,” Wendy says.
In August, the team picked up where they left off and arranged for five boxes of withdrawn items to be collected from the Johnsonville and Tawa libraries.
The books, which were included in a container with reading material from other sources, were sent 12,290 kilometres away to Gatsi Primary School in Honde Valley, Zimbabwe.