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02/19/20 12:59 AM

#339751 RE: fuagf #339750

TRASH MAN BUILDS FREE LIBRARY OUT OF 20,000 BOOKS FOUND IN BINS

Emily Coxhead | 23rd March 2018



20 years ago a trash collection man, Jose Alberto Gutierrez of Bogota, Colombia, found a copy of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina in with the rubbish in one of the wealthier areas of Bogota, so he decided to rescue the book from the trash.

Jose has since collected over 20,000 books that now make up his own free library in his home in the poorer area of South Bogota – which he opens to community children at weekends. Aptly named “Strength of Words” the library provides local children with a host of reading

md ibrahim sarker says:
1st April 2019 at 8:01 am

Strength of Words! Wonderful expression! Trash can be the Library, in where the true pics of hearts of human
beings are stored! And Jose Alberto Gutierrez is truly a man of pure heart. Thanks from the core of the heart.

https://thehappynewspaper.com/blog/trash-man-builds-free-library-out-of-20000-books-found-in-bins/