Friends and Family,
I wanted to take some time to write about another
opportunity to support Peace Corps Volunteers in Swaziland. This year, volunteers are raising funds for
the annual Books for Swaziland project, which provides 30 schools throughout
Swaziland with 1,000 books, as well as training for a librarian. Volunteers work with schools and community
organizations to establish these libraries.
I have applied to receive books to set up a library in the local Youth
Center, which will provide a safe haven for unemployed teenagers to escape into
the world of reading. The funds raised
will be used to cover the cost of shipping the donated books from the States to
Africa.
The education system in Swaziland employs a very rigid
teaching style that encourages rote memorization, leaving little room for the
development of creativity or critical thinking skills. Understandably, passion for learning is hard
to come by in schools. Reading gives
students an opportunity to foster this passion.
It gives them a glimpse of a world bigger than their own and a vision
for a better future. It gives them a
chance to improve their literacy and English-skills. Many of us have experienced the joy of
reading in our own lives. If you feel
called, please help us bring this joy to the kids of Swaziland!
For more information, follow this link:
Ngiyabonga kakhulu (thank you very much!)
Gratefully,
Kelsey/Nosipho
PS. SEE YA IN 2 DAYS AMERICA!!!!
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Swaziland? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Swaziland in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help