Book Donations Required After School Fire

The Kugaardjuq School in Kugaaruk serves a remote community with three hundred students and 45 employees. The school is a lifeline in such a remote community of just 900, but in March disaster struck as the school was gutted by fire. An arsonist has been charged with the crime of burning down the school, but while most media outlets are reporting the fire, we’re supporting an appeal for donated books!

You can read about the fire at Kugaardjuq school here, (but please read on if you’d like to help!). The school building has been pretty much destroyed as shown in the photograph below and nothing of the school library has survived.

Now a student at the school, Amy Bruneski is leading the appeal to replace the books. The bright student has already written to children’s author Robert Munsch and he rose to the challenge sending her copies of two of his books. Here are some of the children standing outside what is left of the school with those books.

These books don’t make a whole library however, and you can help. Right now the children are being taught in temporary classrooms and it’ll be a while until the school is rebuilt, but you can help them rebuild their library. If you’d like to help Amy restock the school library then all donations can be sent to the address below:

Kugaardjuq School Appeal
Box 86,
Kugaaruk,
Nunavut
XOB 1KO
Canada

If you have any children’s books lying around that your own children have outgrown, or you can help this remote community in any way then we’re sure Amy and her friends would very much appreciate it!