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San Andres, Guatemala
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2008 The Community Library

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2006, Bolivia
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Welcome to the Rural Literacy Project, a group of older teens, educators and students interested in cultural exchange and spreading literacy in Latin America.

 

Help us in our efforts to educate ourselves to worlds of other and as we raise funds to buy children’s books in Spanish for communities where children might otherwise grow up without this pleasure


Books will be carried in backpacks down to awaiting communities in Latin America. There we will have the fortune to live with local families. We experience the community, local environment and culture. We work in schools, community gardens, in family kitchens. 


Work with us and benefit from this opportunity to make a difference. Travel with us and experience a depth of sharing through this cross culture experience.



 
Imagine
 
bringing books to
 
a child that has never held
 
such a thing before. The look on their face.
 
 
 
 
Living in a  culture so entirely different from the one you
 
 have always known. Discovering what you can of another's  world.
 
 
 
 
 Delightful !
 

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2006, Peru, The Amazon Basin

A BRIEF HISTORY :
 
Myself and my two daughters, Mollie and Zoe O. Remillard began this work together in 2000.  Friends, family and many others have sought us out and joined us in our endeavors.
 
Volunteers, working on behalf of a larger group, travel twice a year with books, school supplies and soccer equipment.
 
With the help of many, libraries now exist in Honduras, Guatemala, Peru and in two remote villages in Bolivia.  We have contributed to libraries in Nicaragua and in northern Guatemala.
 

Mollie and Zoe preparing for . . . . . . ,
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Their next trip south ? Maybe, or maybe not !

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