Volunteer collects more than 6,000 books for rural South African libraries
Monroe. Monroe Free Library contributes 1,800 volumes. | 09 Dec 2020 | 10:49 Shanna Sussens poses with the entire collection of more than 6,000 volumes that she is shipping to libraries in South Africa. Photos provided by Alex Carver/MFL. Matt Gonzalez, Melissa Quarles and Shanna Sussens in front of bags of book donations at the Monroe Free Library. One of the new libraries built by Eco Children where some of the books will be housed in South Africa.
On a grey Tuesday afternoon, Shanna Sussens and Matt Gonzalez load more than a dozen oversized bags, filled with books, into the back of Gonzalez’s Jeep.