From the TriValley Central: Arizona City’s (AZ) Librarian, Joyce Baker, is going to Yekepa, Liberia in June to help prepare and catalog books for a children’s library. There are no public libraries in the entire country and there has never been a children’s library. Students at schools in Gilbert and Chandler collected more than 10,000 used books and teaching materials to help the Liberian children.
Yekepa is a remote village at the base of the Nimba Mountains, about an eight hour drive from the Liberia’s capital, Monrovia. After a 14-year civil war, educational resources are very limited.
In many cases, five children share one photo copied textbook. Teachers are often barely a lesson ahead of their students.
Colleagues and parents were shocked to hear about of the lack of materials available to the teachers and students in this country. Determined to help somehow, parent Sheri Wang organized a book drive. More and more people became involved and before long, backpacks, supplies and teaching tools were all donated to begin to rebuild the education opportunities in this remote village.
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