Project Report
| Aug 16, 2013
Project Fully Funded!
By Joan Fuetsch | Board Member
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From books to Wikipedia
Thanks to your generosity this project is now fully funded and we have lots of girls in Guatemala with their heads buried in books as a result. The obvious next step in this process involves technology thus we have just opened a project to enhance technology in our libraries with a special focus on girls and women.
It is our hope that you will continue your generosity towards the girls in one very deserving community who are waiting in line to use a couple of old beat up computers that cannot even run a video. Our hope is to give them a decent internet connection along with updated hardware and software. We will also work with the community on a sustainability plan so that they are not forever dependent on donor generosity to replace their technology equipment. Have a look at project #14768 and help us to get the community of Xolsacmlaja, Totonicapan, Guatemala on the map. And we mean that literally. Maybe the girls will find a way to get recognized by Google Maps along the way.
Thank you for everything you do.
Best wishes, Joan Fuetsch
Member. Board of Directors
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May 28, 2013
Girls Soon to be Reading Wikipedia
By Joan Fuetsch | Project Leader
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I can read and now I can use the internet.
First of all a big "muchas gracias" to all of you who have donated to promote reading among girls in Guatemala. To date we have raised a total of $17,590 with ONLY $410 to go before hitting our target. Clearly, that doesn't mean that the work is done but our next big push is technology based resources. Now that so many girls are reading we will soon be increasing their access to educational content available through the internet. The Spanish language videos from the Khan Academy and Wikipedia are just a few of the resources that will soon be available to girls and their moms. Imagine the sense of freedom and confidence building that will come from having access to all of the information on the internet. You have helped to make this possible. Thank you.
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Feb 25, 2013
Girls Readers = Girls with Confidence
By Joan Fuetsch | Member, Board of Directors
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Book delivery by boat and tuk tuk.
Few could miss the recent "One Billion Rising" movement against violence towards women and girls. Giving girls the chance to learn to read is only one step in this battle. With the ability to read comes the self-confidence necessary to understand that they need not submit to violence simply because they are female. What chance does an illiterate woman or girls have in a macho society?
We are so close to closing out this project so that we might start another one to include even more young girls and more training for our librarians on how to teach literacy to all age groups.
The photo included with this report is a photo of books that your donations have made possible being delivered to our library in San Juan La Laguna at Lake Átitlan. The box contains books requested by the library that are not available for purchase in Guatemala. They were shipped from the US and driven to the lake where they were loaded on a boat and then a tuk tuk for delivery to the library.
We thank you for your past support and hope that you will continue to help us forge ahead in building both reading skills and self-confidence in young girls in Guatemala.
Saludos,
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