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Our Results The Library Project has provided books and small libraries to orphanages, elementary schools and HIV/AIDS clinics in both China and Vietnam. Each location has an amazing story, filled with children with bright futures. It is our hope that if we educate the children of the developing world, we give them the power to reach their goals. Education opens the doors of opportunity for children and provides them with the tools for a better future for both them and their families. I hope you enjoy reading about each location as much as we enjoy seeing the happy smiles on each child's face when we deliver the books to them. Our Goal The Library Project’s aggressive goal of providing over 80 libraries to schools and orphanages in Asia is a difficult one. We need your help, but we understand that sometimes photos and stories help put our programs into context. Below you can find a few of our most recent libraries that we donated. |
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Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School Completion Report (PDF 1 MB) The Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School is located about an hour from the city center of Xi’an, in the ShaanXi Province. There are over 300 students in grades 1-6 that attend the Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School. This school is one of five elementary schools in the area that The Library Project will be providing libraries to. The Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School is a Focus Schools, which is a school that will be experiencing an increase in attendance because of school consolidations and closures in the area. It is estimated that the attendance will jump to well over 500 students in the next two years. This will be the first Focus School in the area to experience the jump in attendance. To accommodate for this jump in student numbers they have just finished construction of a new school building. They just broke ground on dormitories for an estimated one hundred children that live a great distance from the school. The Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School has an incredible group of teachers and administrators. We all love going to this school because we always receive bags of fresh fruit from Ms. Zhong, the third grade teacher.
The Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School suffered from another fact: that the school library was in a small room the size of a walk in closet. The good news is that they had a large room set aside for a proper library, they just lacked the funds to provide the needed tables and chairs. Along with having no tables and chairs for the library, the school had only about 100 school books that the children could physically read. Most of their books were written for university and high school students. This made their current library almost unusable. The Library Project transformed the empty library room at Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School with a donation of four sturdy wooden tables and seating for thirty children. Along with providing a globe, posters and plants, The Library Project also upgraded their collection of books with 500 hi-quality children's books in the Chinese language. The Library Project made a clear IMPACT in the quality of education that the administration are able to provide for the children that attend Bai Lu Yuan Elementary School. This impact will be seen for year to come through the use of their library on a daily basis, but also through the positive impact that our volunteers made while donating the library. Games, arts and crafts, and introducing the administration to their new library are just a few ways that we were a positive impact on the lives of the children at Bai Lu Yuan. |
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Si Qing Elementary School Completion Report (PDF 1 MB) The Si Qing Elementary School is located about an hour from the city center of Xi’an, in the ShaanXi Province. There are over 200 students in grades 1-6 that attend the Si Qing Elementary School. This school is one of five elementary schools in the area that The Library Project will be providing libraries to. The Si Qing Elementary School is a Focus School. A Focus School is a school that will be experiencing an increase in attendance because of school consolidations and closures in the area. It is estimated that the attendance will jump to well over 500 students in the next couple of years. To accommodate for this jump in student numbers they are building an extension to their school and dormitories for the children that live a great distance from the school. The Si Qing Elementary School has an incredible group of teachers and administrators. The Principle has over the past few years invested in a few books for their small library, but because of the schools projected growth he was not able to purchase the subjects and quantity of books he would like to offer his students.
The Si Qing Elementary School also suffered from another fact: that the school library was in a small room the size of a walk in closet. The classrooms are the most accommodating places for large numbers of children to read books. With that being said, the teachers have had difficulty bring books into the classrooms for the children to read. This is because there has not been a place for the books to be kept in each classroom. On October 31, 2007 The Library Project provided four sturdy wooden bookshelves for the seven classrooms at the Si Qing Elementary School. Along with providing a globe and plants for each classroom, we also upgraded their collection of books with 500 hi-quality children's books in the Chinese language. The Library Project made a clear IMPACT in the quality of education that the administration are able to provide for the children that attend at Si Qing Elementary School. Games, arts and crafts, and introducing the administration to their new library are just a few ways that we were a positive impact on the lives of the children at Si Qing Elementary School. This impact will be seen for year to come through the use of their library on a daily basis, but also through the positive impact that our volunteers made while donating the library. |
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Mi Cun Elementary School Completion Report (PDF 1 MB) The Mi Cun Elementary School is located about an hour and a half from the city center of Xi’an, in the ShaanXi Province. There are 215 students in grades 1-6 that attend the Si Qing Elementary School. 40 of the children in attendance have family members that are in prison. The prison is located just down the road. Those children The Mi Cun Elementary School is a Focus School. A Focus School is a school that will be experiencing an increase in attendance because of school consolidations and closures in the area. It is estimated that the attendance will jump to well over 400 students in the next couple of years. This jump in attendance will add to an already strained budget that the administration has to balance. The Mi Cun Elementary School has 15 teachers and 15 classrooms.
The Mi Cun Elementary School is no different from most countryside elementary schools in China with regards to their library. This school had books, but the books were written for university and high school students. Their reading area was rarely ever used and had been neglected because of the low quality books in their collection. On November 2, 2007 The Library Project transformed the Mi Cun Elementary School library with a donation of four sturdy wooden tables and seating for thirty children. Along with providing a globe, posters and plants, The Library Project also upgraded their collection of books with 500 hi-quality children's books in the Chinese language. The Library Project made a clear IMPACT in the quality of education that the administration are able to provide for the children that attend at Mi Cun Elementary School. Games, arts and crafts, and introducing the administration to their new library are just a few ways that we were a positive impact on the lives of the children at Mi Cun Elementary School. This impact will be seen for year to come through the use of their library on a daily basis, but also through the positive impact that our volunteers made while donating the library. |
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Dalian Children's Orphanage The Dalian Children's Orphanage is located in Dalian, China. This orphanage is one of the only privately funded orphanages in the Liaoning Province. The woman that has run the orphanage for the past 20 years is nothing short of amazing. Her orphanage gives a home to 30 children. The Dalian Children's Orphanage is filled with love. It should be a model to all orphanages. What makes this orphanage different from most in Asia is that the children don't have to leave at 18 years old. The woman who runs the orphanage truly sees herself as each child's mother. It is not uncommon for her children to go on to university. We were given a large corner to build a children's library in. Over 3,500 books, fun chairs, a table, plants, games, shelving posters and lighting were all donated by The Library Project. All books were donated through our Chinese partner, Aston English. The Library Project held a two week book drive at each of their seven Dalian English language schools. Aston English volunteers were a huge help in building the libraries on site. The Library Project provided a safe, fun and accessible place for children living at the Dalian Children's Orphanage to learn and grow. |
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