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So-called ‘pirated schoolbooks’ in Guyana – how sad and ironic
DEAR EDITOR,
Most people would agree that a sound education is the best way to prepare a child for success in life. That is one thing no one can steal from you, it can be taken with you everywhere and is yours forever. But so much depends on wide reading. Recently several libraries in London have been earmarked for closure – at least 3 in the district where I live – because “no one wants to read books these days”. Everywhere on public transport, old and young alike are reading from what I can only describe as electronic mini slates – much handier to carry around than books. A few years ago my son authorised me to donate most of his higher education textbooks (almost 300) to Oxfam, the Charity known for its links with the Third World. I thought I would first offer them to the nearby public library, through the local borough council. A spokeswoman for the borough council then told me they could not accept the books and suggested that I put them out, about 12 at a time, with the weekly rubbish! Oxfam eventually sent a van round to collect them. A case of one man’s meat being another’s poison.
Perhaps there could be some central agency in the USA and the UK to organise the collection and dispatch of used and new school textbooks to Guyana, relying on some trusted local group to distribute them fairly. Might be worth thinking about.
Geralda Dennison
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