BOATERS FOR BOOKS HISTORY

Kathy and Dick Oberle

November 14, 1999: Boaters for Books is Born

December 29, 1999 : A Strategic Planning Meeting

February 5, 2000: Grenada endorses Boaters for Books Project
Plans Libraries for each School

Ferry Dock, Admiralty Bay, Bequia

November 3, 2000: Boaters for Books Announces Corporate Shipping Partner
Tropical Shipping

[Dodie and Ms. Sylvester]

April 10, 2001: St. George's, Grenada

Boaters for Books Launches 2001 Fall Campaign

November 2001: SVG Boaters for Books

[ group picture ]

January 2002: Boaters for Books Launches Trinidad Project

Smiling over Books

February 2002: Grenada School Children Delight in Reading

25 February 2002: Boaters for Books Expands into St. Vincent & The Grenadines

September 1, 2002: BFB Joins Working Literacy Project in Tobago

[girl reading]

August, 2003: Boaters for Books Expands into the Leeward Islands
More Recipients Discovered in the Windward Islands
The Story of Margaret Allen's Outreach Literacy Program
on the Island of Carriacou in Grendada

Boaters for Books Update March 2004

Kathy Oberle & Edie Smith Receive Humanitarian Award from SSCA

January 2005 Update: Boaters for Books Delivers more than 18,000 books to the Caribbean

May 2005 Update: Boaters for Books Faces the Challenge in Grenada!
Replace School and Library Books Lost to Hurricane Ivan

[Hillsboro School with Books]

March 2006 Update: More Books Are Shipped!

April 2006 Carriacou Update!

[Rouseau Books]

June 2007 Update: Another year’s worth of donated books
packed and shipped to several islands in late April.

[ Books]

Boaters for Books Update April 2008


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