We recently began
implementing the Portable Libraries Project in rural areas where
students cannot afford to travel to nearby villages with schools.
However, one library box cannot be shared amongst dozens of
villages, hundreds of schools, and thousands of young minds.
Some of the children we most want to reach come from the slums
and streets, and some from the tribal and ethnic minorities
who live in remote areas. We are presently fortunate enough
to work with the Department of Education in Danang in planning
a three-day workshop for one hundred teachers from fifty schools
in different provinces and poor areas that desperately need
this Portable Library Project to reach their school.
GVF wishes to introduce this new Portable Libraries concept to
Vietnam and hope that you will participate in joining our team
of teachers, children’s book writers, book illustrators,
and publishers to stock our first mobile libraries with books,
arts supplies, and equipment that we can take to many schools
in central Vietnam. We need sponsors and hope that some day
we will be able to attract many award-winning manuscripts for
children books that can be published in Vietnam and elsewhere.
The International Foundation contributed a grant for our first
“Portable Library Training Workshop” this August, and Ministry of
Education Department in Danang has given its approval for GVF
to start the first "Portable Library Project” as a
pilot program which began this year (2006). We are in need of ongoing funding to produce
the Portable Libary carrying cases, purchase books, art supplies, equipment
and to cover the transportation from village to village.
We ask you to please help us develop this important program
by sponsoring one or more ”Mobile Libraries”. The
cost of one box with books, art supplies and transportation
to rural villages is only $500. Your generosity will help so
many deserving children receive a much needed and long overdue
education. Your company or family name will be inscribed on
the beautiful Mobile Library cases as a gift from you to the
children.
G
o to our Secure Donations page and to invite your friends to join you in supporting the Portable Libraries Project. It's fun and fast to sign up. DONATE NOW!
For more about the Portable Libraries Literacy and Training Workshop being held this August 3 and 4 in DaNang, CLICK HERE>> |
