The Arajuno Road Project

The Project / The Placement / The Location / Pricing and Application

Buy A Book Campaign

Finding any kind of reading material along the Arajuno Road is difficult, anything that is available has been read by cover to cover by anyone who can get there hands on it. The local communities do not have the resources to buy books and getting reading materials, even newspapers, is difficult as the nearest town can be over an hour away. We believe that reading and literacy plays an important in modern life and work, and an even more crucial role in education. By creating a mobile library which services all of the schools along the Arajuno Road, we can bring books to over 400 children.

What it is

The mobile library will visit each of the schools along the Arajuno Road once a week, giving children the chance to loan a book from a much wider choice than if there was a library for each school. The books will be educational and for fun, giving the children more than just their school textbooks. The campaign has been set up to purchase and collect as many books as we can to give the children the largest choice possible.

Progress

Updated Summer 08

Since the first books arrived in February 2008 the Buy a Book Campaign has been making steady progress. The children have really taken to the books. They choose their favourites and read them over and over again. This month, with summer school, we have had a lot of children at the school who would not normally be there. This has given us the opportunity to give these children to improve their reading skills which they would not normally get. We have also had a large donation of books from Spain which will arrive shortly.

How to donate

Buying Books

Simply choose how much you would like to donate and let us do the hard work for you.

or

Know exactly where your donation is going and choose one of the books from the list

Sending books

Donations can be made online or by sending a cheque to Buy a Book Campaign, Great Aves, 1 Riverside Close, Oundle, Peterborough, PE8 4DN.

For all book donations please send the books directly to our project in Ecuador. Please address all packages to; Buy a Book Campaign, Arajuno Road Project, Correo Central, Puyo, Ecuador.