biblioteca

After months of fundraising planning, building, and preparing, our community library is finally done! With cemented floors and walls and a nice paint job, the community members are very impressed with how it looks and anxiously waiting till it opens. It has been a great experience to see nothing there five months ago to now having literally the nicest building in our village. We have requested books from a program called PromoLibro, which is part of Peru’s Ministry of Education. Part of the budget that I had from kind donations also allowed me to purchase additional books for the library. A few weeks ago we had a community meeting and invited the local mayor. The library committee and I informed the community members and leaders about the advances with the project. Then, the mayor agreed to support our project by paying a small tip to the person who will be working in the library. Our next steps are stocking the library and cataloging all of the books, training the community member how to work in the library, and getting word out about the library.