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A free library and reading room: a volunteer-led effort in Chicago
Volunteers in Chicago are raising $3,100 for a free library and reading room at the Liberty community hall.
🇺🇸 60696, Chicago, Illinois, United States2,305 views
For eight years the neighborhood has asked for a free library and reading room. This year a group of 22 volunteers, including the neighborhood football club, decided to stop waiting. The council has given permission for the Liberty community hall, but no funding.
We have received donated timber, and the remaining cost is $3,100.
It will serve about 564 people, including elderly neighbors living alone. We'll hold a build day in April and everyone is invited.
We're a small team, and every dollar will be spent in the open - I'll post receipts and progress photos.
Funds are spent only on materials, permits and safety equipment; all labor is volunteered.
Where the $3,100 goes:
• Materials: $2,100
• Permits and inspections: $170
• Safety equipment and signage: $400
• Tools hire and delivery: $430
I hope life is good to you.
- Samuel
Updates from Samuel
Small update. $1,360 so far, I made the first payment toward materials.
Quick update: $649 raised so far (21%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.
- Suthep Pattanasiri 🇹🇭 · $1,000
- Liza C. Martinez 🇵🇭 · $250
- Ajay M. Singh 🇮🇳 · $200
- Bích Loan Hoang 🇻🇳 · $200
“Hope this helps. Thought of Samuel all day after reading this. - Da Nang”
- Anonymous 🇨🇴 · $100
“Hope this helps. Hope the April deadline works out. - Medellín”
- Swetha S. Balakrishnan 🇮🇳 · $75
“Hope this helps. Hope the April deadline works out. - Hyderabad”
- Anonymous 🇧🇷 · $75
- Rohan L. Parmar 🇮🇳 · $75
“My mother told me about this one. - Nizamabad”
- Tumusiime John Shayo 🇰🇪 · $75
- Kiptoo Onyango Lubega 🇺🇬 · $75
- Annabelle S. Cole 🇺🇸 · $73
- Festus Chidi Falana 🇳🇬 · $50
- Caleb R. Daniels 🇺🇸 · $50
- Sultana Sathi Sikder 🇧🇩 · $50
- Aaliyah Gregory 🇺🇸 · $50
- Ikenna Victor Mba 🇳🇬 · $50
- Jimena Vásquez 🇨🇴 · $50
“Praying for you. Only $50 but hope it helps. - Bucaramanga”
- Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $50
- Cooper T. Ashworth 🇺🇸 · $50
- Osama Nabil Darwish 🇬🇧 · $47
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Thanks for sharing this, Samuel. This could happen to any of us
Take care, Samuel. Shared it with a few friends. Take care.
good luck, Samuel. More neighborhoods should do this. We lost years of savings to something like this so I get it. Take care