'Act soon or books will be shredded'
A BATCH of new books valued at R40 000 is waiting for a transport sponsor.
A publisher in the US has offered under-privileged children in South Africa the new books, but transport costs are excluded.
Johannesburg attorney, Nathan Mendelow, who is working with American professor Wayne Dudley of Salem State College, to bring textbooks to this country, has challenged the freight industry to sponsor the cost of shipping the books to South Africa.
Because of high storage costs, the books will be held for only a short time and unless a sponsor is found soon, they will be shredded.
If 25 Johannesburg companies are willing to contribute R5000 each, we would have enough money to bring them to South Africa, Mendelow told FTW.
Mendelow and Dudley are involved in a project with Americans to bring 2 million books to South Africa by the year 2000.
Anyone willing to help should telephone Mendelow at (011)336 2801.
