Today I received a little note from the Koins for Kenya founder, Bret Van Leeuwen. He just returned from an amazing trip in Kenya. He said he shot some great video footage of Kenyan dignitaries sitting in a row on the porch at the Koins Community Center reading my book. He said they were so thrilled with the thought of their "Koins" being part of a story, let a lone in a real book because up until about four years ago, books were rarely seen in their village. He said now that Koins has libraries in several of their schools, books are seen in the hands of the children all the time.
What an amazing thing! American children have no idea how lucky they are to have books and we have to force most of them to pick one up to read! Anyway, Bret said he shot about four hours of video footage to help me with a story KSL was thinking about doing and sadly, on a bumpy road near the village, the video camera fell out of a bag and was lost. A reward is being offered if it is found, so I am keeping my fingers crossed that it will be found because it would be wonderful to see this happen!
Bret said he did take a few pictures of the dignitaries reading, so hopefully I can post these amazing pictures soon!
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