FAVL board member Leslie Gray is in Burkina Faso right now, doing some research on cotton farming and agrarian change in Burkina (see her edited book Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa with William Moseley).
We have our house in Bereba village, of course, and she went by the Bereba library today. She was chatting with Ivette and Zoumizou, the librarians. School was let out, kids came streaming out of the classrooms... then what she noticed was that many of them, quite matter-of-factly, stopped at the library, exchanged their books and got new ones, and others stopped to read something quick, before continuing to home and lunch...
It was all very normal. Wow! We both suddenly got goose-bumps, realizing what an incredible transformation, from pretty much zero books to pretty-much a normal small library, all thanks to you, our generous donors.
We have our house in Bereba village, of course, and she went by the Bereba library today. She was chatting with Ivette and Zoumizou, the librarians. School was let out, kids came streaming out of the classrooms... then what she noticed was that many of them, quite matter-of-factly, stopped at the library, exchanged their books and got new ones, and others stopped to read something quick, before continuing to home and lunch...
It was all very normal. Wow! We both suddenly got goose-bumps, realizing what an incredible transformation, from pretty much zero books to pretty-much a normal small library, all thanks to you, our generous donors.
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