COUNTRYSIDE CLASS
The Library Project
Situation now
The
beginning of 2014 we finally got 5 different English classes at the week, one
Khmer traditional dance class at the weekend and one small library with two
books shelves that have more than 500 different books (story books, work books,
dictionaries, etc - almost 50 percent of the books are story books). We now
have 3 English teachers and one dance teacher. There are almost 150 students
and from different ages, 5 to 18 years old. Every year we get more and more
students faster than what we expected. Thankfully, each year we’ve been able to
find more support in our community and from others to help us build up our
school and greatly improve our students’ success. Even when we have some
problems affecting our work and progress, we still keep going with slow and
steady progress, finding a solution step by step together.
We have had many plans for extra projects since
the founding of our school in order to support this school’s progress and help
our students to improve themselves more quickly and easily. Many of these extra
projects, such as an environment project to address pollution in our community,
require more knowledge and understanding than our students currently have. So our
first step is creating a library project so that they can learn about these
other subjects as well as continue to improve their English. But the library we
have now isn’t sufficient; we don’t have enough books or a budget to pay for a
librarian to support programs like movies, Story Telling Corner, and reading
competitions.
30 of our students participated in a community clean up as part of an environmental awareness campaign over Khmer New Year in April 2014. |
So
we need help from you all to help fund improving our library to create useful
programs and support our students.
One of two current bookshelves at countryside Class. |
The Plan
This is the plan we have for our new library:
We need one salary for a librarian for one year in advance,
one projector for the movie plan, a computer for keep documentary of the school
and the movies; two books shelves and 500 different books, one