The Global Education Fund donated books in Spanish to start a literacy center at the Carbonera School on the Osa Peninsula in Southwestern Costa Rica. The Peninsula has always been considered the most rural and least developed region in Costa Rica; there is no electrical or telephone service, no water or sewage system and a single primitive road winds through the area. The children who attend the Carbonera School are tough and hard-working. Many boys have machete scars from years of work in the fields. The girls clean, cook and do laundry by hand from an early age. Many of the children want to learn so desperately that they walk through the forests for over an hour to get to school. One boy in the first grade is fifteen years old and many children in grades 1 and 2 are over ten years old. These kids want to learn and their parents support this desire. For these children, books provided by the Global Education Fund continue to be worth their weight in gold.
IMPROVING THE LIVES OF ORPHANS AND
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