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...effort to promote literacy at international schools in poor municipalities, the trio—along with four other GSE students and a staff member—traveled to Caluco, El Salvador from Jan. 4 to Jan. 13 of January term. The group brought along 1,300 books to start three libraries, teaching parents and teachers in the area how to utilize these new resources both in the classroom and at home...
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...
...after a few phone calls, the organizers were put through to the CEO of TACA Airlines—a Latin American airline company with a hub in Houston—who agreed to ship the books from Texas to El Salvador for free...
...most of whom had not even seen a digital camera before—were permitted to take the cameras home to photograph their typical afternoon, morning, and evening, according to Ganske. An exhibit of the students’ work will be presented both at Harvard and in El Salvador in February...
...their presence in Caluco. The mother said that she never imagined that there were people in other places—in the United States, in fact—who were thinking of others beyond their country lines. And of all places—to help the citizens of El Salvador! It was a blessing, she said...