Although the official dedication of the Dr. Thomas Hooyman Memorial Library and Media Center did not begin until 10:00 a.m., the children lined up at 8:00 in the blazing sun. I wondered how to keep them entertained for two hours and then it hit...
I enlisted the support of current volunteers (2009) in Mekelle, Ethiopia to help set up a library project in memory of a colleague. The current volunteers were extremely helpful in setting up the library and are a continued source of support for...
Libraries; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
This photo shows a computer being set up in the Dr. Thomas Hooyman Memorial Library at Fre Siwot Elementary School in Mekelle, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. I enlisted the support of current volunteers in setting up the library, which opened in August...
Full text of Who's Who in the Peace Corps--Washington, which includes staff bios of many of the founding staff members of the Peace Corps. Approximate date of publication is 1963.
Children; Teachers and students; Schools; Libraries
I took this picture of a group of First year students from a high school in the Philippines in September of 2009. These students helped open our first boxes of donated books, and were so proud that they asked to have their picture taken. To date,...
I am doing practice writing classes for the students before the Write On contest, which will be February 12th at our high school in the Philippines. They write in the library. When this picture was taken there were 11 students; we are up to 14 and...
This picture was taking in September 2012 in Mozambique. I, Theresa Cole, am an Education Peace Corps Volunteer in Mozambique who is starting a Children's Community Library in my community. The building in the photo was donated to me by my...
Library time is finally in session. Our school library was finally cleaned, organized, and children were welcomed to participate in small library events such as this one, story time with a craft.
There were no book stores in Turkmenistan, only warehouses of textbooks. The culture of reading had left with the fall of the Soviet Union, but the desire to learn about a greater world and see images of life beyond their borders brought a full...
This was the school library at Mohamed Ali Othman School in Taiz, in 1979, at the end of my service. I'd acquired the books (by various methods), typed catalog cards for each one, made the signs, assembled the shelves, and trained older kids to...
This is a photo of a Guatemalan boy enjoying a copy of "Donde Los Monstruos Viven" or "Where the Wild Things Are." His rural school received over 100 books as part of a library donation from the USA.