I’m a sucker for a great human interest story, and so when I saw an article in a recent Good Housekeeping that mentioned an Ethiopian library which had at times distributed books via Donkey Mobile, I had to check out the website at http://www.ethiopiareads.org. Ethiopia Reads is the dream of an Ethiopian who learned to love to read when Peace Corps volunteers taught him how. He was nineteen. Eventually, Yohannes Gebregeorgis came to the US, earned a degree in library science, and developed a dream of libraries in his homeland. With the assistance of many volunteers, this program has already opened at least 5 libraries.

Ok, you’ve got an underdog, books, and a continent I dream of visiting. Does this sound like a dream blog entry to you? It seemed too good an opportunity for me to pass up!