The project
Months after the shipment of books from the enLibrate project, we have received fresh news from the San José de Nica School.
ragua. This school is one of the 9 beneficiaries of the project "El Rincón de la Lectura" promoted by our friends of Alternativa 3 and the Augusto Cesar Sandino Cooperative of Nicaragua, and is within the framework of the EnLibrate project of Fundación Logística Justa and Fundación SEUR, with the collaboration of Fundación CARES and the Town Council of
Terrassa.
San José is a rural region located in the tropical mountains of Nicaragua's interior. To reach this area, you have to drive several hours through the roads of Guapotal until you reach the narrow path that leads you to the small community.
Following the shipment of books and furniture in 2016, a small children's library was created so that children from the community could enjoy the pleasure of reading. Today, a year after the solidarity shipment, Pablo tells us how things are going there.
How does a library help the community?
Pablo is the teacher in charge of the school. He is 23 years old and is a native of San José. Thanks to his efforts and the scholarship programme promoted by Alternativa 3 and the Augusto Cesar Sandino Cooperative, he became the community's teacher. The school where Pablo works is a primary school that receives 54 students, some of whom come from more distant villages, and every day they walk for miles in order to receive an education.
Pablo explains with joy and excitement that the creation of the library has been a revolution in the community, both among the children and for the rest of the family, since until then, only study books had arrived in the area and there were almost no textbooks to read. The library itself has set up a lending system so that children can take books home after school to read and enjoy them with their parents, aunts and uncles, grandmothers and grandfathers and the rest of the family. He tells us how every day he spends some time in class asking about the experiences the pupils are having: what the stories in the books are about, who they have been reading the books with and what sensations they have been able to create in them. Pablo tells us that every day they tell different stories from the fantastic world of books, and that the social project has undoubtedly served to promote reading among all the inhabitants of San José.
- 20-11-17
