People Who Build Schools: It Takes a Village
How a Vermont community rallied to build a school in Peru.
By: Anne Mollegen Smith | Source: NRTA Live & Learn | February 26, 2007
Credit: Wanda Stetson
Project Peru 2005: Happy horseplay between Vermonters and Peruvian villagers.
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To Donate Books to Project Peru
A Baltimore, MD, city librarian is organizing donations of Spanish-language books for the new library in the Belen region of the Amazonian jungle, where only half the population has achieved literacy. The new schools will make a major difference to the Yagua Indian villagers of the area. More than three dozen books had been donated even before ground was broken for the Project Peru 2007 library, but many more are needed. To help, you can select and donate a book today for Project Peru through Alibris.com.
UPDATE: Project Peru 2009
As of mid-August 2008, the Woodstock school and community are fully committed to Project Peru 2009, coming in February. In all, it's hoped 26 students and 9 chaperones (parents, teachers, adult volunteers) will make up the team, and Job One is to build an addition to a health clinic. If enough money is raised, the team will apply themselves to what a WUHSMS brochure lists as more "opportunities," such as digging another new well.
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