AdoptASchool.org Helps US Marines Help Iraqi Schoolchildren



AdoptASchool.org the smash hit literacy advocacy website, has a new project - helping US Marines get school supplies to schoolchildren at 40 schools near Fallujah in Iraq.

When Marine 1st Lt. Chris O's8217;Boyles contacted AdoptASchool.org for supplies for these children, its founder classical soloist Lynn Gaubatz quickly responded. Together they worked out a list of needed supplies and set up transportation for the supplies from the US. Now all they need are more kind people willing to send basic supplies like pencils, notebooks, and chalk to the US Marines for Iraqi children.

Says Lynn, 's8220;This is a great way to celebrate July 4th! I am sure these Iraqi schoolchildren and teachers will never forget the generosity of Americans who reach out to them like this! Enriching their lives by helping their schools is a wonderful way for us to connect on personal, practical level.

's8220;It would be great if when we do our own back-to-school shopping we could just pick up a few extra supplies to send to Lt. O's8217;Boyles for these kids. To mail a 10-lb. box of supplies from Virginia to the military address is only $8.85 - and that is a LOT of pencils and paper!'s8221;

For the list of needed supplies and the FPO to mail donations at US-domestic rates, email adoptalibrary@aol.com with List and Address in the subject line.

AdoptASchool.org and its sister-site AdoptALibrary.org are designed to encourage and facilitate donations to schools and libraries in prisons, Native American reservations, and around the world. They do not ask for or accept donations 's8211; all donations offered go directly to libraries and schools, or organizations which aid them.

Besides Good Housekeeping's8217;s Quick & Simple and Woman's8217;s World magazines, hundreds of newspapers throughout the US, from an editorial in Bigfork, Montana to 's8220;Hints from Heloise's8221;, have featured AdoptALibrary.org which has had over 200,000 visitors who have donated many thousands of books (and not a few dollars!). In 2004 AdoptALibrary.org ran a contest to find the most clever and eco-friendly uses for old National Geographic magazines, with the prize awarded by the National Geographic Society.

AdoptASchool.org and AdoptALibrary.org were founded by musician Lynn Gaubatz, considered to be one of classical music's8217;s most brilliant soloists. Named 's8220;One of America'ss Ten Most Outstanding Young Working Women's8221; by GLAMOUR Magazine, Lynn has wowed audiences on four continents 's8211; North and South America, Europe and Africa 's8211; including solo performances in Vienna, Salzburg, New York, Boston, Chicago, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, and Washington.

Besides her career as a soloist and chamber musician, Lynn is an avid literacy activist who performs benefit concerts in the US and Europe. On her three benefit 's8220;Concerts for India's8221; in Austria, Lynn performed the world premières of two of the five works composed for her by Fritz Berens, an Austrian composer who fled the Nazis in 1939, and the world première of a work by Danish composer Ivar Danielsen. She also performs, and lectures on music banned and destroyed by the Nazi regime to bring to light the forgotten music, and credits libraries with preserving much of the music and literature that would otherwise be lost.

Lynn'ss performances have been broadcast worldwide on radio and TV by The Voice of America, CBS, PBS, Radio Nacional de España, and Radio Nacional de Venezuela, and several of her solo recitals from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC have been broadcast worldwide via the Internet. She'ss the only bassoonist ever featured by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC on their lectures Art of the Virtuoso and The Concert Experience.

Lynn taught at the world-renowned Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria for several years, and has given master classes in Salzburg, Vienna, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Seville, Málaga, Caracas, Madison, Albuquerque and Santa Fe.





AdoptASchool.org Helps US Marines Help Iraqi Schoolchildren