Kids excited on the day of their library opening.

 
Latest News on Villa Serrano: 

Library opens on July 23rd!  The community of Villa Serrano proudly opened the doors to their first-ever municipal library on July 23, 2007. 

Library Receives Book Donations  The US Embassy and the Banco del Libro both donated books to the Villa Serrano library.   

LIBRARIAN PROFILE:

Evelin Flores is a college educated, strong woman who loves her job as librarian in Villa Serrano. She works from two in the afternoon until ten o’clock every night teaching children to read, helping them with their homework and playing educational games with them. She is always calling BiblioWorks with new ideas, such as opening up a coffee shop in the library to raise money to buy new books. She has four children, two of which are identical twins and always keep her company in the library.

Original Project Summary from October 2006: 
 
Villa Serrano, at an altitude of 2,152 meters, is located about 180 km. west of the city of Sucre in the Department of Chuquisaca, Bolivia.  Hills surround the pueblo and the Pescado River passes through the lower section of town. 

Kids outside of their new library.

Latest News on Yamparaez: 

Yamparaez Library Opened!!  On April 24th, 2007 the Yamparaez library was officially opened. 

Yamparaez Library Workshop  On March 12 and 13, BiblioWorks, CESATCH, and Project K’ayamanta hosted a library training workshop in the community of Yamparaez, conducted by two library trainers from the Central Mennonite Committee in Santa Cruz.

LIBRARIAN PROFILE:

           Most people call Ana Carola Castro just Carola. She is shy and kind, and very dedicated to improving the library in Yamparaéz any way she can. She works one on one with the library committee in all important matters surrounding the library. Yamparaéz is a small town, so Carola knows everyone. She does many activities with kids in the library, such as showing educational movies, having story time, and having afternoons playing games. She has been librarian for a full year, and is very organized and enjoys knowing all of the books she has in her library.

Ana Carola the librarian in Yamparaéz

Original Project Summary from October 2006:

The Yamparaez library project became a reality due to the dream and vision of one small town mayor, who had the opportunity to present his project to local NGO director Victor Menchaca of CE.S.A.T.CH. and receive a visit from BiblioWorks Vice-President, Brendan Sherar.