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Back in August, Graduate School of Education students Jill A. Carlson and Eleanor B. O’Donnell asked their classmate Debra L. Gittler to help them organize a project of international scope—but none of them had a clear idea of what exactly they wanted...
...wanted to do an international project, but there were no real projects for us,” O’Donnell said...
...libraries. After a few phone calls to organizations she had previously worked with during her three-year stay as a literary coach and teacher trainer in El Salvador, Gittler secured the necessary logistical connections, and the three students soon began organizing what they would call the Learning Through Libraries project...
...November, the 15 GSE volunteers involved in the project at the time organized a Thanksgiving dinner called “Give Thanks, Give Books.” Each guest donated $5 or brought a book in exchange for a plate of dinner. The result of the dinner bash was over $400 in donations, with which the project organizers bought books written in Spanish from Scholastic off of El Salvador’s Ministry of Education book list...
With the books now in possession, a more daunting problem confronted the project volunteers: moving over a thousand books 2,000 miles southward. In fact, the volunteers’ initial plan of hauling the books to El Salvador in fat suitcases seemed like an absurd idea, according to Carlson...