We went to two schools built by GVF - we spent a couple of hours at one school which is the current beneficiary of GVF's Mobile Library Project. We saw how the Mobile Libraries are used in the schools and enjoyed watching the kids enjoy the library during classtime.
Each fold-up mobile library contains approximately 250 books - in both English and Vietnamese - and these libraries are rotated through the school district each semester, such that each school has access to 1000 books per year.
The first video includes a snapshot of a mobile library in use in a classroom, a few minutes of Coleen teaching the English class using a book from the mobile library, and a cute short segment with schoolkids singing in class.
The second video is a short interview with Coleen, talking about Vietnam, Global Village Foundation, and her experience as a volunteer.
We are still working on narrating our exciting trip during the morning when we visited a village near Hoi An to see a construction project sponsored by GVF - building a house for a disabled man and his wife and three kids. Stay tuned - we will post that shortly...
Here is a still shot of Coleen and Vinh being animals...
Here is a shot of the Mobile Library in action - simple, no?
And here it is ready for transit...
Here are some kids from one of the schools we visited
Everywhere we go in Hoi An we are shown the evidence of the Nov 07 floods - always demonstrated by pointing to the flood marks on the walls. The brown mark in this pic shows the damage at the school - about 8 feet high...
And we also visited a GVF kindergarten - the kids were all gorgeous
More soon.
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