The Adrian Mejia School Library was the very first library that we supported in Honduras, back in 2018, in partnership with our friends at Chispa Project.
The Adrian Mejia public elementary school is located in a community on the outskirts of the city of El Progreso, on Honduras’ north coast.
The library creation process
A library committee was formed at the school who worked to plan and design the library, and to raise a small portion of the funds.
The weekend before it was set to be inaugurated, the committee organized for the school community to come together to put together bookshelves, paint a mural on the library wall, and organise the books into levels with stickers and a full inventory.
Teacher training
The day before the inauguration, a full day was devoted to a teacher training workshop, and later a session was held with parents, too.
This video gives an impression of the teacher training workshop and why it was so crucial to the project’s success.
The library in action!
Each class, from grades 1 through 6, visits the library once a week, during which time each student checks out one book to keep in their classroom to read until the next library visit. The library is also open to the wider community, allowing older students and even parents and other community members to come in to read and enjoy the library space.
The library includes 700 culturally-relevant Spanish- language books of various reading levels, bookshelves, woven reed mats for flexible floor seating, organisational materials like stickers and an inventory list. We also funded the paint for the murals, and the costs involvedi n running the teacher and parent training workshops, as well as the community inauguration celebration!
Library books and Latin American authors
We believe that it is important for kids to have books where they can see themselves and their lives reflected. This blog, written after the inauguration of this school library, talks about how we ensure that:
educate. 