Project Report
| Aug 27, 2012
Librarian Training Underway in Honduras
By Joan Fuetsch | Project Manager
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Library in San Pedro Sula ready for training class
Thanks to a recent grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation we have embarked on a program to re-train all the librarians in the Riecken network. This past week 35 librarians attended five days of training in San Pedro Sula. The training was developed by Honduran Country Director, Paco Alcaide, who has a library science degree from the University of Grenada in Spain. As a result of this training the librarians are now even better equipped to not only serve their libraries but also very remote communities where there are no libraries and no books. The best way to serve these remote communities is with a mobile library and with your continued support this could become a reality. We are still a long way from our goal but are ever hopeful that someone who cares about development in Honduras will turn up and agree to help with this project. In the meantime, please donate whatever you can to bring books and information to the less fortunate in Honduras. We invite you to click on the links below and listen to a 2007 interview with founder, Allen Andersson, about how he can to build this network of libraries. Muchas gracias.
![Honduran Director Paco Alcaide conducing training]()
Honduran Director Paco Alcaide conducing training
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Team Member Dasil Mejia works on group project
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May 29, 2012
Ten Maya Chorti Communities Need Bibliobus
By Joan Fuetsch | Project Leader
This past weekend, May 19-20th 2012 over two hundred residents of Copan Ruinas, Honduras and ten surrounding rural communities came together to celebrate the culmination of a three-year project funded by the Finnish Consulate of Central America. Thanks to this project there are now books in ten Chorti communities accessible only by horseback or four-wheel drive vehicles. While we recently have received a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to strengthen the existing network of libraries (see link) in order to continue to serve these communities we have a very real need for a mobile library "Bibliobus" which can reach these communities regardless of the weather and make new books and new programs available to these underserved Hondurans. No donation is too small. Please donate whatever you can. Muchas gracias.
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Feb 23, 2012
These Kids Need Books on Wheels
By Joan Fuetsch | Project Leader
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Riecken volunteer reads to kindergarten students
As we have a ways to go on funding this project books are still being delivered by horseback and four-wheel drive to our more remote locations in Honduras. There has been a lot of bad news out of Honduras lately. Some have called it the most dangerous country on the planet, perhaps a failed state. All the better reason to increase efforts to give some hope to the many wonderful people who just happen to live there. The kids pictured below are in kindergarten in the Chorti village of San Rafael. Their books come from the Riecken library in Copan Ruinas. Riecken volunteers do story hours for the children. They talk about the stories and have the children do drawings about the stories and color them. With a fully stocked bibliobus we could take many more books to the children in this community. We could offer them hope for a brighter future.
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Like children everywhere they love a story
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Children are encouraged to illustrate the story
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Fierce concentration!
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