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St Petersburg's Ekaterina Dashkova Award  for FORCE

On behalf of the FORCE Foundation, Richard Tucker was awarded the Ekaterina Dashkova Award of the St. Petersburg Library Society, category 'Sponsor', for considerable contributions to helping to satisfy the information requirments of the population of St Petersburg. The prize, a bronze bas relief with a Latin inscription reading "For the Sake of Society", was awarded on 29 May i2004 by the President of the St Petersburg Library Society, Mrs. Zoja Chalova. 

FORCE-NOVIB cooperation 

NOVIB, one of the five co-financing organisations (medefinancierings-organisaties) in the Netherlands, has agreed to co-finance FORCE's current project in Zimbabwe. The project entails the production and distribution of spoken books for blind and visually impaired children in the country. FORCE, responsible for managing and executing the project, will work together with the Dorothy Duncan Library in Harare that has long-standing experience with the production of alternative format materials. 

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