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Courtney Bauman is a Peace Corps volunteer in Anker,
Namibia – a small village near the Namib Desert in Southern Africa.

In January 2004, Courtney began work with Edward Garoeb Primary School in the small town. 

In the past year, Courtney has worked with the teachers and students at her school on various education projects such as after-school programs, professional development workshops, and most recently, plans for development of a functional English-language school library.

The school serves 265 students in grades 1-7, who currently read the English language
at a 1^st to 4^th grade level.

In January 2003, Courtney began writing donation letters to organizations and publishers.  Thanks to generous donations from Courtney’s hometown in Oklahoma and from several organizations, the school now has close to 1,000 books. 

Because a large portion of the roof on the school was blown off during a storm in January 2003, there is presently no space for a library at the school.  However, the books are kept at the school dormitory where the kids have access to them every afternoon during library time.  The students love library time and really enjoy having access to books.  The teachers also enjoy using the library to find teaching materials and to discover books they can read in English.

In 2005, Courtney and her school plan to renovate one of the newly covered school classrooms and turn it into a school library.

The school need books for reading levels grades 1-4. Storybooks and reference books are all needed.



Donate today through the Amazon Wish List.  Every book ships directly to Africa, and every time you go to Amazon through this web page and buy a book, Amazon gives a portion of your purchase price back to us so that we can buy more books.  Children's books are inexpensive and your dollars will go far.

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Your assistance will help provide for the creation of a library that can be a classroom resource for students and teachers; a library that will allow students to check out books; a library that will foster a love for reading and contribute to the growth of an educated, English-literate population.

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Have books you want to mail directly there?  Click here for shipping information.  It's fairly inexpensive.

Questions?  Please contact Courtney Bauman at sunflowercourtney@yahoo.com.

All donations go DIRECTLY to the Edward Garoeb Primary School in Anker, care of Courtey Bauman.
There are no administrative costs associated with any part of your donation.

 

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Namibia is located on the west coast of Africa, just north of South Africa.  It is one of Africa's newest nations, having claimed independence in  1990 after seventy years of South African rule.

With independence, the Namibian government declared English as the nation's official language, and has since worked to promote equitable social and economic development for its population.



Illiteracy and poverty challenge the economic development of Namibia; they also limit popular participation in social and economic affairs. The country is in the infancy of a process to develop a literary tradition, and   currently the schools of Namibia are bearing the burden of providing access to English language literature.

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Send Courtney Bauman a letter or mail her books directly:

Courtney Bauman
c/o Edward Garoeb
Primary School
Anker, Namibia
AFRICA