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Riecken Team Attends DC Conference
In early October five Riecken team members in addition to a government representative from both Guatemala and Honduras were invited to attend the Beyond Access 2012 conference, entitled Local Alternatives for Global Development: Rediscovering Libraries in Washington,...
News from May 2012
Community Event in Honduras During the weekend of May 19-20th the community of Copan Ruinas in Honduras closed the three year project with the Finnish Embassy of Central America. Over two hundred community members showed up at the town hall for talks and...
Riecken Community Libraries Receives Grant to Support Access to Information in Central America
Emerald Hills, CA,- April 7, 2012 – Riecken Community Libraries is proud to announce a multi-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support their network of libraries in Central America. Riecken Community Libraries started more than sixty years ago...
Progress in our Girl Reader Program
A recent visit to the Riecken library, Biblioteca Comunitaria Rija'tzuul Na'ooj, in San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala to see the progress of young girls who have gotten excited about reading, was very rewarding. Central America continues to have very high illiteracy...
Early Childhood Development Program a Great Success!
Early last year with the support of the Reno Rotary Club (Nevada, USA) an early childhood development program was launched in the "Open Windows to the Future Library in Chiché, Quiché, Guatemala under the able guidance of Alba Estrada. Alba reports that initially the...
For a Network of Sustainable Libraries
This was the motto of the annual meeting of the Honduras Riecken Community Libraries (ARBICOR), which was held on October 28, 2011 in San Pedro Sula (Honduras). Over 55 volunteer leaders, representatives of RCL boards and Riecken community librarians...
Book Deliveries to Rural Communities in Honduras
Watch our video of delivering books to two very rural indigenous (Chorti), communities in the Copán Ruinas region of Honduras. Text GIVE 8426 to 80088 to donate $10 to a "bibliobus" for book deliveries in Honduras on Global Giving. Terms: mgive.org/T