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Hope on wheels
Education makes a complete change in the existence of mankind.
With the idea of having an institution to bring out our ideas.
Education Project for poor people
with a lot of social edeficio
I use to say: "We have to think big"
8 or 9 years ago a child said to me: Do you know why am I here?
I'm here because I love to read.... I want to know ALL what is out there in the world!
There are many places in Guatemala where there is no school
there are children, there teacher, but no school at all
Always a similar story: They live in extreme poverty,
Mother doesn´t have work, but having 7, 8, or 9 children. Father is drinking a lot and unemployed.
….but they want to study
In 1998 I thought by myself: How to put PROBIGUA
in the minds of all people o maybe in the whole world?
So we started the project of the mobile-libraries
and we will always work with the mobile libraries because it´s very important
that we are coming to the children where there at
because the children can´t go to a library and
i am convinced, that we have to go
Everyday we visit two schools in the morning
and one in the afternoon
we visit the same schools each week during the year,
The reason why? Because we don´t want to bring the librarybus around the whole country,
this would be a bustle and more like a "show" by presenting the library-bus
We visit 16 schools in the area of former Antigua, Guatemala and
and another 16 schools in the area of Chimaltenango.
each week we visit the same schools on the same day, the same hour
this way the children and teacher know, which day and what time will get the bus
I don´t think that children come only for reading the books.
I remember how I received a review of a friend once
Rigoberto, you should do a schedule for the children. It seems they only take a book and looks like they don´t read in it but wasting time.
I said: No, I want the children to have contact with books, want children to feel the weight of the books, the texture of the book,
the smell of the book, to create love to books.
Children need to see books, to have them in their hands. What comes in here is a very interesting progress.
The child says: Oh how beautiful! This I don´t like. That's interesting. That's not interesting.
This book doesn´t matter to me or I have interest in this one, etc. So they can look after another book.
This is going to create in a child a very sustainable relation it will be a confirmed habit, the habit to "own" books. To know to read.
We have a bit of everything. Books of science, of history,
mathmatics, religion, literature.
Children especially attended to picture books.
Children ask for books to investigate something, like in sience books,
or books of history, literature, biology, etc.
All children are fascinated by books. The children are awaiting the bus. They know the time and day and they´re waiting for the library,
even when they are playing or eating, they want to be in the libraries.
I have to confess, that one thing I really enjoy about this project is to enter a library,
having a check in the pocket beeing sure now I am buying books.
I would love to have one librarybus in every department of the country. There are many schools calling me:
We like to have the librarybus. But we can´t. It costs a lot of money!
In 5-10 years PROBIGUA wants to give to the society young executives,
who are able to work for the developement of the country.
Looking at the libraries like a base for development. We want our libraries beeing part of it.
I believe a lot in it
and so I am convinced that the books and the libraries are a fundamental part
where children and youth can live in a peaceful coexistence,
helping eachother
and thereby create a concept more humane for today.
I'm sure this is what we have to change all around the world.
where mutual help is, where people are aware of the importance of
living together and helping eachother
on behalf of peace in a be better world.