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So I work for a company that works under a publisher and we get copies of practically every book we have a part in and even ones we dont half the time. So we have a library of crazy proportions and we got a call today from a charity org that would be willing to take them. They had no diea what they were in for - I brought my truck in and we filled the bed of that thing to the brim with books. Something like 5000 books total - a majority of them were nursing texts, doctors texts, books that cost $200-300 each but were an edition old or no longer of use.
Anyways my poor truck now straining under the sheer tonage of these books made it to their distribution center and I have a cover over everything (tonno cover - kinda hard plastic shell) and i ask the guy if this is where i drop off the books. he's lik yeah let me get a box - he goes inside and by the time he comes out I have the cover up and his jaw just drops - he says he has to go inside and get some help. They bring a guy over with a giant forklift with a giant basket and start unloading everything.
Then i guess there are some doctors/nurses there that come out and they are looking at these books and are just shocked. They can't believe that we are giving these books to them saying ho huge a help this is. They start picking books out of the collection. The nurses that were there stole away a couple of our books which had software in the back (that i produced
) and were already at their comps loading it up not beleiving that we were giving this to them (not just 1 copy either - like 200 of the books were the software alone). One doc stood out though.
He came over and was looking and saw a paramedic book - and snached it up and put it under his arm. He said he just had returned from panama helping them build up their medical facilities. A nephew had come down to help him out on the last week that he was there and ended up catching some form of malaria or something down there after being injured. Within the week he was dead. It was pretty saddening but the upside was he said donations like ours were going to go a long way in helping countries like that progress.
Anyways made me feel really really good to help out a place like that. The only thing we asked for in return was the tax write off - which was frankly only maybe 10% of the books worth - we were happy to get rid of the books and they happy to take them. It always feels good when you make a donation but when you truely stun these people by your donation you realize how great it helps.
Anyways my poor truck now straining under the sheer tonage of these books made it to their distribution center and I have a cover over everything (tonno cover - kinda hard plastic shell) and i ask the guy if this is where i drop off the books. he's lik yeah let me get a box - he goes inside and by the time he comes out I have the cover up and his jaw just drops - he says he has to go inside and get some help. They bring a guy over with a giant forklift with a giant basket and start unloading everything.
Then i guess there are some doctors/nurses there that come out and they are looking at these books and are just shocked. They can't believe that we are giving these books to them saying ho huge a help this is. They start picking books out of the collection. The nurses that were there stole away a couple of our books which had software in the back (that i produced
) and were already at their comps loading it up not beleiving that we were giving this to them (not just 1 copy either - like 200 of the books were the software alone). One doc stood out though.He came over and was looking and saw a paramedic book - and snached it up and put it under his arm. He said he just had returned from panama helping them build up their medical facilities. A nephew had come down to help him out on the last week that he was there and ended up catching some form of malaria or something down there after being injured. Within the week he was dead. It was pretty saddening but the upside was he said donations like ours were going to go a long way in helping countries like that progress.
Anyways made me feel really really good to help out a place like that. The only thing we asked for in return was the tax write off - which was frankly only maybe 10% of the books worth - we were happy to get rid of the books and they happy to take them. It always feels good when you make a donation but when you truely stun these people by your donation you realize how great it helps.
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