Yo,
Welcome to the Hillbrook African Library Project 2014 Official Blog Website!! Here, we plan to keep you updated with the latest ALP Hillbrook News!! So follow Nikhil, Willis, and I as we post our way to 1,300 books!
Keep checking in!!
TENMAAG Alex
Friday, April 4, 2014
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
New Video!!
Hello!
Hope you've checked out our new video! In the vid, Nikhil and I went around checking out how people are getting the word out! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka6DW7ITOM8
Hope you like it!
TENMAAG Alex
Hope you've checked out our new video! In the vid, Nikhil and I went around checking out how people are getting the word out! Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka6DW7ITOM8
Hope you like it!
TENMAAG Alex
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
The Talk with Mrs. Chris Bradshaw
Hello,
Her Story
Mrs. Chris Bradshaw was on a pony trekking trip in Lesotho, when she was informed that there was only one library in the country. When she learned this, she decided to start ALP.
Malawi Lifestyle and culture
In Malawi, almost everything is homegrown and homemade. This is what an average family's house looks like in Malawi.
In Malawi, locals made kilns out of mud bricks to make mud bricks used to make houses, but now locals are asked not to build kilns to stop habitat destruction. There is very little money, and
droughts can cause millions of deaths and are caused because of global warming.
Schools in Malawi
In Malawi, the average class size is one hundred fifty students and the average school has 2,000 students. Only a third of elementary school students make it to high school. Classrooms only have blackboards and nothing else. Teachers might have a book if they are lucky, but most teachers teach from memory. Most children come to school because schools provide what might possibly be their one and only meal of the day: porridge.
About the Libraries
Students sometimes walk distances of six miles to deliver the boxes of books to their new library. Most libraries have Culture corners in with artifacts from their culture. All libraries have HIV sections. The librarians are trained teachers. the most requested books are science books, but teachers like dictionaries, children's encyclopedias, atlases, and black history books. American history books, and religious books aren't accepted.
Way to approach people to ask them for a donation:
Tell the people your problem, what you are doing about it and then, ask for a donation.
And that's a little more about Chris and ALP!
Thanks!
Nikhil
Her Story
Mrs. Chris Bradshaw was on a pony trekking trip in Lesotho, when she was informed that there was only one library in the country. When she learned this, she decided to start ALP.
Malawi Lifestyle and culture
In Malawi, almost everything is homegrown and homemade. This is what an average family's house looks like in Malawi.
In Malawi, locals made kilns out of mud bricks to make mud bricks used to make houses, but now locals are asked not to build kilns to stop habitat destruction. There is very little money, and
droughts can cause millions of deaths and are caused because of global warming.
Schools in Malawi
In Malawi, the average class size is one hundred fifty students and the average school has 2,000 students. Only a third of elementary school students make it to high school. Classrooms only have blackboards and nothing else. Teachers might have a book if they are lucky, but most teachers teach from memory. Most children come to school because schools provide what might possibly be their one and only meal of the day: porridge.
About the Libraries
Students sometimes walk distances of six miles to deliver the boxes of books to their new library. Most libraries have Culture corners in with artifacts from their culture. All libraries have HIV sections. The librarians are trained teachers. the most requested books are science books, but teachers like dictionaries, children's encyclopedias, atlases, and black history books. American history books, and religious books aren't accepted.
Way to approach people to ask them for a donation:
Tell the people your problem, what you are doing about it and then, ask for a donation.
And that's a little more about Chris and ALP!
Thanks!
Nikhil
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