Our gratitude to Debby & Bruce Oakley

Bruce & Debby Oakley, holding the animals the library children made as a token of our appreciation for all the Oakleys have done for Hekab Be.

Super library supporters Debby & Bruce Oakley really went above and beyond in helping the library this year. Always loyal, the Oakleys have been library supporters for many years. But this year, they did a number of additional projects that really helped keep things lively and initiate some new projects at the library:

*They put up a $2000 US challenge grant in January that helped us to start the year off right with operating expenses for over 2 months.

*They invited and sponsored our first intern, Yilin, who was here for a month and helped us write a funding proposal to start a peer education-mentorship project next year.

*They provided the idea (& did a fair amount of the fundraising) for the contest to create a new library logo with children's art work.

And that's just to mention a few of the bigger things they did. Debby also held regular meetings with library staff to help brain storm and solve some of our larger issues (such as the bathroom). Overall, they brought wonderful energy to the library as well as some great ideas and a substantial amount of much needed material support.

As a small thank you, the kids made animals out of plates and construction paper which we gave to the Oakleys to show our appreciation. They modestly accepted this gift, telling us that they help the library because it's their gift to future generations.

THANK YOU DEBBY & BRUCE!!
The world (& our little library) is a better place because of people like you!