In a remote classroom, K’iché Mayan children hold up books they received through Child Aid’s “Books to Villages” program.
1: In a remote classroom, K’iché Mayan students hold up books they received through Child Aid’s “Books to Villages” program.
2: Books are rare in rural Guatemala. Those that do not exist are usually dilapidated and of little use to children.
3: 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.
4: Preschoolers in a remote village4 pretend they are reading, imitating older children in our program.
5: Children proudly hold up their first storybooks, which they received thanks to Child Aid supporters.
6: Full color reference books are a vital resource in rural communities where books are scarce.
7: Through our “Books to Villages” program, we help librarians transport rotating boxes of books to outlying villages that lack libraries of their own.
8: Children carry boxes of books to their remote school. The road was impassable by car for months after Tropical Storm Agatha.