http://pentrust.org Serving Central Tanzania Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:51:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks goes to several Rotary Clubs from the Minneapolis area who donated funds for a container currently being distributed. A total of 23,318 books were distributed to two universities, ten secondary schools, nine primary schools, one regional library, two teacher resource centers and other smaller groups. Some times we never ... http://pentrust.org/2008/06/28/rotary-container-ready-for-distribution/ The top ten library users at Msalato Girl’s Secondary School in Dodoma were invited to the PEN Trust warehouse while we were in the process of sorting the Rotary container. Msalato has received 3,846 books from PEN Trust throughout the years. It was one of the schools studied ... http://pentrust.org/2008/06/28/msalato-girl%e2%80%99s-visit-to-warehouse/ Mango Church has had another face lift. We received a designated gift for continued construction to try and complete the church. After discussion with Pastor Grace and church elders, it was decided that the funds would be spilt into two projects. The first was to finish the inner floor ... http://pentrust.org/2008/06/28/mango-church-update/ Our ten scholarship kids are doing well in their studies. We have added an additional primary student to our group – making our total three in primary and seven in secondary school. More than half of our scholarship kids received new backpacks and school supplies this year thanks ... http://pentrust.org/2008/06/28/scholarship-student-update/ NW Ohio Synod has assembled book bags for PEN Trust for the past few years. The bags contain essential school supplies. We have also added books, toothbrushes and stuffed animals to these school bags. The bags include a ruler, crayons, construction paper and a spiral notebook. They also include a ... http://pentrust.org/2007/12/27/book-bags/ Poverty Eradication Network Trust Welcomes You To Our Holiday Craft Sale Dates: Thursday, December 13 - Friday, December 14 Times: 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM Place: 8924 - 40 1/2 Avenue North in New Hope, Minnesota Directions: East of 169 N/exit at County Road 9 east/go through one stop light ... http://pentrust.org/2007/11/30/holiday-craft-sale/ While distributing books to rural regions is a rewarding job for us at PEN Trust – we need your help to make it a more efficient project. While visiting many of the rural schools that have already received books from PEN, we find many schools that do not have ... http://pentrust.org/2007/11/18/need-for-libraries-2/ PEN Trust in conjunction with the regional government of Singida recently distributed over 23,000 books. The consignment consisted of 10 secondary schools, 14 primary schools and one regional library, many having multiple consignments. The handover to the individual schools occurred while visiting the region with guests from Books For ... http://pentrust.org/2007/11/18/23000-books-to-singida-2/ Brad Mattson and Deb McDonald from Books for Africa recently visited PEN Trust. Brad is the Warehouse Manager and Deb is the Assistant Director and is in charge of arranging our shipping. It was great for them to see the entire process from donation of books in St. ... http://pentrust.org/2007/11/18/visitors-from-books-for-africa-2/ Mango Church has had another improvement recently thanks to a generous donation from a friend of the Mungwe family. While the NW Ohio group was here, we had the opportunity to add a new floor to the church. With the help of church volunteers and some of Mungwe’s ... http://pentrust.org/2007/11/18/mango-church-gets-a-new-floor-2/