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Library Project in Central America Seeks Aid!

In 2005, the small community of Las Mangas, Nicaragua, population 1,300, built a library through local fundraising efforts and a donation from USAID. Local residents donated their time to complete the construction. This project is vitally important in a community with a 21% illiteracy rate. The library committee would like to begin a childrenīs story hour, computer education classes, and adult literacy classes as well as offer students in the nearby high school and elementary school the resources they need to complete their homework. Although the library is completed, most of the money went into construction and so the project still lacks the tools to make the most basic dreams a reality.

We are looking for a large scope of resources from short chapter books for adolescents, a world atlas, a set of encyclopedias, educational software for children, software to teach English, a television to show educational films and a dvd player, all the way to simple posters about reading and literacy. All of these materials must be in Spanish, of course. Anything, no matter how small, would be much appreciated by the people of Las Mangas.

Contact:
Katelin Reagan
Apartado 290
Matagalpa, Nicaragua
America Central
kreagan@gmail.com