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Private Maria Burt is a woman on a mission and her first order of business is to establish a children’s book drive which could see thousands of Barbados’ children benefit from the cause.
The 39-year-old was recently named a World Literacy Foundation Ambassador out of 2 600 applicants from 118 countries, including islands of the Caribbean and European countries.
“I feel really excited. I didn’t expect to be chosen, but after receiving the email I was really excited. Having been chosen, my first project I would like to launch is a book drive where I use social media and invite people to donate books, used and new books, and I would collect them,” she said.
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