In a remote classroom, K’iché Mayan children hold up books they received through Child Aid’s “Books to Villages” program.
In a remote classroom, K’iché Mayan children hold up books they received through Child Aid’s “Books to Villages” program.
Books are rare in rural Guatemala. Those that do exist are usually dilapidated and of little use to children.
Child Aid staff and volunteers help unload a delivery of 50,000 children’s books. The books are destined for dozens of remote schools and libraries.
Full color reference books for children are a vital resource in rural communities where books are scarce.
Through our “Books to Villages” program, we help librarians transport rotating boxes of books to outlying villages that lack libraries of their own.
Children carry boxes of books to their remote school. The road was impassable by car for months after Tropical Storm Agatha.
Preschoolers in a remote village pretend they are reading, imitating the older children in our program.
Children proudly hold up their first storybooks, which they received thanks to Child Aid supporters.