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Fatuma Akinyi Hamisi
Keeper of the literacy programs
- 🇹🇿 Kinondoni, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Elmwood Reading Room
- Since 1978
- English, Swahili
For 48 years I look after the shelves, the card catalog and the regulars at Elmwood Reading Room.
Some of my favorite visitors were children who came for the heating and stayed for the books.
I never expected anything in return, but a kind word always makes my day.
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What gifts mean to Fatuma: Any gift will help me buy picture books for local families.
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- Anna W. CarpenterFormer student🇨🇦
You put the perfect book in my hands when I was 11. Greetings from Toronto.
- Logan P. LewisCommunity member🇺🇸
You helped me research my family history in 1981 Greetings from Fresno.
- Jericho G. Aguilar 🇵🇭 · $10
- Saowaluk Thanaporn Udomsak 🇹🇭 · $50
- Brooklyn Watts 🇬🇧 · $5
- Jana Winkler 🇩🇪 · $53
- Ayaka Nanami Murata 🇯🇵 · $31
- Benjamin F. Magsaysay 🇵🇭 · $10
- Anonymous 🇬🇧 · $20
- Ayanda S. Padayachee 🇿🇦 · $3
- Kumiko Ando 🇯🇵 · $10
- Anna Martinsson 🇸🇪 · $20
- Jayden S. Gregory 🇨🇦 · $10