El Toro Health Science Academy students collected more than 1,300 books
Photo courtesy El Toro Health and Science Academy
Students display books collected.
By Staff Reports
The El Toro Health Science Academy students have finished collecting and packing up the books for an elementary school in Ghana.
“They did a wonderful job,” said El Toro Librarian Amanda Vandecoevering.
They wanted to collect 500 books but they did such a good job they are sending them 1,323 books of all different elementary school levels and genres, nonfiction, encyclopedias and dictionaries.
The students also learned about Ghana including where it is in relation to Morgan Hill, some traditions, clothing, food, climate and even a few words in a regional dialect.
Many students created cards, bookmarks and wrote personal letters that they packaged with the books.
The organization they used is the African Library Project based out of Berkeley. For more information, visit www.africanlibraryproject.org.
