(NAME-MCE) Build a Library Build a Future

[Anselmo Villanueva]

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From: Angelica Guerrero Fortin <gelydonut at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:29 AM
Subject: Build a Library Build a Future

Hello,

If  anyone is  interested in assisting with the building of a library in
Ecuador, please follow the link below.  The message was sent to me
directly from Peace Corps Member Shelley Jackson.

Thank you,

Angelica Fortin, San Diego

I am in the Peace Corps in the northern
Sierras of Ecuador. I work a lot with the local school, and heard the
teachers expressing a desire to have a library. Growing up reading and
loving books, it was immediately something I wanted to help with. I
wrote up a grant with the Peace Corps Partnership Program and it has
finally been put on the web. Below you will find the link (I also
attached the article below). If you would like to help out this
project and donate, please go to the link below. If you cannot donate,
please forward to anyone and everyone you know.
Thank you,
Shelley Jackson

https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.donors.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=518-334

An indigenous community in Ecuador wishes to construct and fill a
library for its elementary school in the Northern Sierras of Ecuador.
The kids have no books to learn to enjoy reading with, or books to
further their learning if they so desire. A collection of books in
Spanish, English, and Kichwa is ideal. Learning to read is a gift for
a child that will last his or her whole life. Once you learn to read,
you never forget it. The kids will be able to learn to read, then read
to learn. By this philosophy the kids can take the future of the
community and apply knowledge through reading to improve the quality
of their own lives. Even if only one child grasps onto this concept,
that one child may be the one to grow up and help the whole community.

We would also like to expand the number of computers in the library.
The school already has four computers which classes of 16 utilize
twice a week, but it is difficult to learn with four kids on each
computer. We hope to add two additional computers to aid in learning
with games and hopefully internet in the future. With the equipment
needed, the children can receive the education that every kid
deserves.

Give a book (or a dollar) change a life.
-- 
PCV Shelley Jackson
Cuerpo de Paz
Casilla 10-03-10
Ibarra, Imbabura
Ecuador
America del Sur