Our Progress:

Amount given to Building With Books:

$18,000

Amount needed to finish school in Nicaragua:

$0

Our Goal:

Our goal is to positively affect the communities that will become our hosts along our route. We will begin by generating enough funds to build a school in Nicaragua. We would like to raise $18,000 to fund the building of the school in 2007.

About our Partner: Building with Books

An important part of BwB's mission is to provide safe and functional schoolhouses for children in developing countries. They build these structures in some of the poorest communities where educational opportunities are sorely lacking due to schoolhouses that are: non-existent, too small or not sturdy enough to house the villages'student populations, overcrowded, or located too far away. In Haiti, Mali, Nicaragua, Nepal, India, Brazil, Malawi, and Bolivia, children and their families now have access to the countless benefits of education, including literacy, health education, improved farming techniques, and perhaps most importantly, a sense of dignity and empowerment. Their international program continues to expand as they build more schoolhouses in existing project countries and extend their programs to new countries.