Be a part of creating a library from scratch!

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Pedro Nufio Elementary School
Tegucigalpa, Honduras

This library is being sponsored in part by U.S. volunteers coming to help install and inaugurate this new library in June 2024.
Help us meet our goal!

850 Books

416 Students

17
Teachers

Why you should help

This rural school with grades K-6 is on the outskirts of Honduras’ capital city, Tegucigalpa and near the city’s landfill. Many parents work in the landfill collecting trash, operating the landfill’s incinerator, or commute by bus to a day laborer job in Tegucigalpa (construction, housekeeping, non-permanent positions that are only paid as needed).

The school was thrilled to be chosen, and as part of Chispa’s library process, formed a committee of parents, teachers and students. This committee will meet several times before the library installation in order to plan where the library will go, create library policies, and how the library will run.

Upon recently signing our agreement between the school and Chispa, Montserrath, a 6th grader on the committee, said she was very excited to learn that the donation includes 850 books. "Now it's time to work," said Miss Sandra (Kinder's principal), convinced that this project will benefit her students.

What all does the library program entail?

  • This library includes:

    • A year-long training program for the school on how to run and maintain a library and ways to incorporate reading into everyday classes.

    • 850 children’s books of unique titles

    • Shelving, decorations, cushions, mats, painted murals to decorate library and each classroom

    • Parent workshop for developing reading habits from home

    • Library inauguration celebration with reading activities and arts and crafts for all the students

  • All our schools have to go through a rigorous vetting process. We look for schools that demonstrate dedication to incorporating a library and integrating reading habits into everyday classroom reading activities.

    The school commits to creating a committee of parents and teachers who will run and promote the library with training from Chispa Project. They also commit to fundraising approximately 4% of the total library costs.

  • Creating school libraries, providing teacher development opportunities, and international volunteer partnerships, Chispa Project works with Honduran educational institutions to spark a passion for learning within local communities.  Approximately 50,000 books have been brought to more than 110 different institutions to create school libraries since 2016.

    Chispa Project has a unique approach in bringing books directly to schools in a community-driven development approach.  Library programs are implemented together with a school’s library committee made up of teachers, parents, and students to manage the library. The committees create a plan of action and guide the direction and layout of their library space and activities offered.

Checks can be made out to:

Chispa Project
10556 Combie Road, Suite 6643
Auburn, CA 95602