2009 Si Chuan Book Drive

This summer we are planning to help a group of children who are victims of the 2008 earthquake in Si Chuan province. These 150 children range in age from 7 to 14 years old and their school buildings were completely destroyed by the earthquake. To continue their education during earthquake relief efforts, they were moved to a school on the outskirts of Cheng Du (the capital city of Si Chuan) where they are living in very crowded conditions and have only five classrooms for their use. All the materials they have at Cheng Du, including their clothing, bedding, toys and school materials have been donated. At present they have no library and only a few books which have been donated. The teachers have told us they have a room designated to be the library but very little to put there. The slide show below shows some photos of the earthquake's effect on these children's home towns and the conditions in which they are living in now at Chengdu.



During the summer of 2009 Xu Bo is planning to help them build up their library. To do this we will take the following two steps:

1. We will go to the streets of Cheng Du and encourage people to donate their books to the library. Volunteers will be asked to bring books or toys from their hometowns and we will hope to exchange these items with the local people for school books. This will take one or two days.

2. We will decorate the room designated as the children's library. We can work with local volunteers as well as the kids in the school. This activity will take about two days.

It is our hope that our efforts will greatly improve the educational facilities that these children are using.

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