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https://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate.contribute.projDetail&projdesc=685-164
You would be making the dreams of kids come
true by giving them libraries
In partnership with the NGO Books for Africa, a large number of Peace Corps Volunteers throughout Senegal are raising money to bring a shipment of 22,000 books and textbooks to the country. These books will serve to supplement or jump-start library projects in schools and communities in every region of Senegal in which volunteers are active. Every volunteer involved is responsible for mobilizing his or her community. They will be helping teachers work out a library system and encouraging them to spend extra time with their students in dedicated reading rooms, as well as helping them explore ways to incorporate literacy into the rigid Senegalese curriculum. Community leaders and headmasters in these villages are preparing to receive the books by revitalizing existing spaces or constructing new ones. Education is widely considered to be of great importance in Senegal, but schools here suffer from a crippling lack of resources. In many places, not even the older children in secondary school have access to textbooks or any type of educational material. For students in rural areas, who have as much access to the Internet as they do to the moon, this means that their teachers, overworked and often un-paid, are their only sources of information about the world. Children who have withdrawn from school because they need to help their parents in the fields or by doing other work, or because they have failed out, have no access to education resources at all. Adults who have managed to become literate in French or who attend literacy classes in local language have almost no reading material either. This partnership between Senegalese communities, Peace Corps Volunteers, and Books for Africa is the beginning of a new book itself, one that we hope will be a story about thousands of books in hundreds or schools and communities, being read over and over again.
