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Prospect School Students Learn How Book Donation will Benefit Guatemalan Library
Prospect students used Skype to talk with the co-founder of Palms and Souls, who thanked students for their donation of books.
On December 20, the fifth graders of Prospect School had the opportunity to Skype with Ryan Bures, co-founder of Palms and Souls, an organization supporting development of community services for an impoverished area of Guatemala. Bures shared information about how 33 books the students donated will be used to help fill a library. The students and staff had previously engaged in a Skype session with Bures in October as part of Global Read Aloud, an international project to join people around the world in reading and making connections with one another. Global Read Aloud creators selected Palms and Souls as an organization that participants could support through book drives. Since October, Prospect School students have been donating books to the non-profit to support a Guatemalan community center library. Bures discussed the challenges students face in the Jocotenango area of the country and described the ways books can transform the lives of young people there.
