Our teachers are all smiles as they unpack the supplies delivered from Tidewater Community College.
Juanita, our talented story-teller shares one of the donated books from TCC with a group of attentive students.
In August of 2010, La Biblioteca Puerta Abierta received a wonderful gift. As if fate had lead her to our front door, Carol Hodges, a librarian from Tidewater Community College stumbled upon our small children's library. In a bustling village of moto-taxis, crowded stone buildings, zig-zagging streets with no signs, this truly was a small miracle. When Carol entered our library, a local librarian was reading the last pages of a book to a young audience for a community story hour. During this brief encounter, Carol was inspired by our mission to share the gift of reading and books with the students of Santiago Atitlan.
Upon arrival to Virginia, Carol was moved to create ways to support our programs and to connect the students and staff of Tidewater Community college with La Puerta Abierta.
TCC has organized two supply drives for our center. Earlier this year, she teamed with Kole Matheson, a TCC Adjunct English and ESL Professor and Library Specialist to lead an on campus book and material drive for La Puerta Abierta. Our staff was overjoyed to receive a personally delivered suitcase stuffed with supplies and books for our library. Carol hand-picked many of the books herself at a Guadalajara book fair that she had attended in late 2011.
La Puerta Abierta remains immensely grateful for the serendipitous visit over two years ago which linked us with Carol and her library. We are honored to have been taken under the wings of The Tidewater Community College Library as their sister library and have been touched by Carol's kindness and generosity.
Muchas Gracias Tidewater Community College!
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