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Jewish NGO Effort: Fixing the world’s forsaken lands

Somewhere in the Ethiopian hinterland, a donkey loaded with a lending library in Amharic and other local languages is making its way from one rural village to another, delivering books for a program called Ethiopia Reads.

The Donkey Mobile Library, as it’s called, may not look like a typically Jewish initiative, but it’s among 224 programs that were recently awarded grants by the American Jewish World Service, a New York-based group that funds grassroots programs in developing and conflict-ridden countries in accordance with the principles of tikkun olam and tzedaka. Jerusalem Post, Feb. 29. Read the rest of this entry »

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