READING IS FUN! STORYTELLING IN THE LIBRARIES AROUND SABANA YEGUA (DOMINICAN REPUBLIC)

We have now launched three libraries in the La Sagrada Familia Parish territory around Sabana Yegua.  To promote reading with the children, this past month of August a sort of storytelling show was organized in the different libraries with the help of two volunteer youth from Barcelona.  In each library a story was told in a fun way with the help of drawings, and then was discussed together with the  children. Shortly after many of them who were not yet members hurried to sign up and get their library card in order to take one of the stories that they had heard home to read.  Thank you to Clara and Mar for their help!

CONSTRUCTION OF THREE EARTH-DAMS IN THE ALTIPLANO OF COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA

The Community of Saint Paul has begun a new project in the Ayopaya Province in the department of Cochabamba, in Bolivia.  The project entails the construction of three earth-dams, each with a capacity of 300 cubic meters (79,251 gallons).  The water will be channeled through a distribution network ending in a sprinkler irrigation system that will cover an area of 70 hectares (173 acres) of cultivable lands.  40 families in the community of Totorani will benefit from the project.  The families are very eager and ready to work during the two months that are programmed to construct the necessary infrastructures.  Once the construction is finalized, they will be able to grow alternative products like vegetables, fruits and grains that will help to generate food stuffs and economic resources and thus lower their level of poverty, which is principally due the low productivity of their lands.