Frequently Asked Questions
Book Donations
Books can be sent to our U.S. mailing address at:
2405 N Sheffield Ave. #640
Chicago, IL 60614
Usually we are unable to track where books go, unless you are here personally to help with the delivery or are donating to a specific school that we’ve arranged with you. We try to give each school a mix of varying reading levels and of new and used books. Being able to sort our donations helps us provide this variety to each school, but also makes in fairly impossible to track books.
We accept new and used (in good condition) books in Spanish. We try to avoid books that talk about Christopher Columbus, Christmas gifts, or blonde-haired princesses, because these tend to be too different culturally in ways that reinforce the economic disparity.
The biggest need is easy readers in Spanish. Second priority are ANY books in Spanish. We’re generally looking for storybooks that will be fun or informative for kids to read. We don’t provide textbooks because this is the job of the Honduran government, and we feel it’s important not to let the government off the hook.
Books can be sent to our mailing address in the U.S. at:
2405 N Sheffield Ave. #640
Chicago, IL 60614
Contact us here to let us know when to expect a shipment! We appreciate your donations!
We are usually connected with schools in need through personal introductions or volunteers who want to focus on an area or particular school. We have the ability to travel throughout Honduras, but try to plan our traveling effectively. We also try to only have as many applications out as we have books available so that schools are not waiting too long between when they apply and when they receive books.
Volunteer Projects
Teacher Development
The first area focuses on classroom management to assist with making the workday more effective for the student learning environment. The second part is how to teach multi-grade or multi-level classrooms. Often in rural schools, teachers teach more than one grade. Some schools even have one teacher for all elementary grades 1-6. Even for teachers that only teach one grade, they will still often have a dramatic difference in ability level within the grade due to low accountability in student expectations and the grading process when passing students. Finally, the third part of training focuses on Universal Design of Learning framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. This is to assist teachers in becoming more creative in their teaching methods to make learning more effective for the variety of ways that students learn.
Still have questions?