Opening the Community Library

We just had the grand opening for our library.  Thanks to the help of the Furrow Family Group, we were able to host a party for community with snacks, balloons, crafts, prizes, and a piñata, along with books to read.  We were thrilled at the turn-out of kids and adults that wanted to read. 

Jason and I (Sarah) really value books and have always been readers.  (I think if you weighed everything we owned personally, including furniture, the books would weigh more than the rest combined.)  We want to pass on this passion for reading to all the kids near us.  We want to raise kids up to be life-long learners.

So, we've been collecting books in Spanish anywhere we can find them to have a library for our Children's Home and our community.  We've turned the building previously known as the "office" into a library and we'll have library hours two afternoons a week. 

Just to put this into perspective a little, let me say that I doubt more than a handful of the families in our village own a book other than a Bible.  Kids go to school to learn to read and write, but we live in a village with two or three written signs and almost no books.  Why learn?  Even in the classrooms there aren't more than a couple books.  In this part of Honduras I don't know of more than a couple bookstores and their books would financially be out of reach to the average person. 

In February we have a group coming to build a playground and next summer we're building a covered area for sports and assemblies.  With these and the library together we will have a complex we can open to the community.