Build School Library & Storeroom for 650 Students

The Agwata school library continues to experience heavy use by students, teachers, our girls' group as well as parents meeting at the school. Our library is a bundle of resources that no other school in the area has.

The library has over 70 chairs which can accommodate our larger classes, most of which have 50 or more students. Outside of school hours, the chairs are available for parent meetings and community meetings which might take place outdoors in good weather.

When our U.S. volunteers are on site, it gives them a place to conduct their teaching and training activities as well as have special meetings with sponsored students' parents, the girls group and the school PTA and management committee. 

The attached photos show some of the many meetings and trainings that occur in the library every week!

We thank you so much for your donations to the library project which built the library. In addition, your donations provide extra funding to make technology equipment and textbooks available for all to use!

We are still hoping for the remaining project funds to fulfill the school's textbook needs as well as provide the last funding for the technology part of the project.

Thanks again for all your support!

Links:

• Learn more on our web site
• See our work through photos

The school library remains a hub of activity for classes, individual students doing extra studying, teachers preparing lesson plans and other teachers learning how to use the first round of technolgy items that need to be recharged via solar. The area where the school and library are located is "off grid" so there is no electricityl

That is why everyone is very excited about the additional laptops, and computerized learning items that are being added as additional funds become available through this project as well as other special funding sources.

Here is a photo of our office manager, Melanie, with the head teacher at the school going over various capabilities of the laptop.

We are grateful for this project's donors for making not only the library possible, but also for the teachers' room of learning resources (seen in the back of the photo) as well as technology items. Our library holds the distinction of being the only school library in our remote district which has 73 primary schools! And our school's reputation for excellent teaching is causing our school population to grow. The school now has over 700 students!

Thank you!  Please share this report with any friends, family or co-workers that you think might be interested in helping make a difference as well!

Links:

• See our work through photos
• Visit our web site to learn more