Library Donation Overview

The Library Project donated 15 rural elementary school libraries to Baoxing County, Sichuan Province. There are a number of organizations and individuals that we would like to thank who made these library donations such a success.

• All 15 libraries were made possible by a generous financial donation by the Beijing Rotary. The Beijing Rotary have been huge supports of The Library Project over the past two years.
• The Library Project partnered with Sichuan Quake Relief, based out of Chengdu, to conduct Pre-Assessments of elementary schools in Baoxing County and to conduct a Summer Camp for children affected by the recent 2008 earthquake.
• Grycksbo Paper sponsored two Swedish high school student to volunteer for two weeks. They were a huge help with the Sichuan library donations.
• ClarkMorgan conducts book collections in Shanghai and Beijing. They helped to get more books into each of these elementary schools.
• The Baoxing County Board of Education and Government Charity Association helped by ensuring that each elementary school library donation was a success. A great group of people.

Have fun checking out the photos below. There are a lot of happy kids that have new school libraries in Baoxing County.

15 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL LIBRARY DONATIONS
School Name	Date	Students	Books	Location
Yan Nian Elementary School	Summer 2009	22	>250	China
Qiao Qi Center Elementary School	Fall 2009	240	>250	China
Ga Ri Cun Elementary School	Fall 2009	14	>250	China
Feng Shou Elementary School	Fall 2009	20	>250	China
He Ping Elementary School	Fall 2009	20	>250	China
Qing Long Elementary School	Fall 2009	8	>250	China
Jia Jin Elmentary School	Fall 2009	7	>250	China
Ze Gen Elementary School	Fall 2009	15	>250	China
Le Le Elementary School	Fall 2009	20	>250	China
Da Yu Elementary School	Fall 2009	33	>250	China
Mo Dao Elementary School	Fall 2009	59	>250	China
Sheng Li Si Cun Elementary School	Fall 2009	9	>250	China
Sheng Li Yi Cun Elementary School	Fall 2009	4	>250	China
Tuan Jie Elementary School	Fall 2009	11	>250	China
Dong Sheng Elementary School	Fall 2009	4	>250	China
Totals:		486	>3,750

Budget

It is important that all donors and volunteers truly understand how The Library Project spends their generous financial controbutions and how our projects benefit the students attending the elementary schools. The Library Project constantly strives for 100% transparency.

All costs are in Chinese Renminbi.

Budget Details
Budget Line Items	Costs	Quantity		Budget
Library Costs
Training Materials	20	15	libraries	300
Chinese language children's books	9	3,750	books	33,750
Bookshelves	130	15	bookshelves	1,950
Educational toys	10	15	libraries	150
Globes	17	15	libraries	255
Book checkout cards	75	15	libraries	600
Subtotal				¥37,005
Logistic Costs
Book delivery		1	shipment	1,758
Furniture delivery		1	shipment	1,150
Local transportation (trucking)		15	libraries	4,042
Transportation		5	people	2,902
Accomodation		6	days	1,870
Meals and miscellaneous costs		6	days	2,772
Subtotal				¥14,494
Total				¥51,499

Baoxing County, Sichuan Province

Regional Summary
Baoxing County is located in Ya’an City of the Sichuan Province. The total area of the county is 880 square kilometers. Baoxing County lies in the north of Ya’an Region and west of the Sichuan Province. The population is over 57,000 people. Baoxing County has a very high Tibetan minority population.

Education System
There are 40 schools in the Baoxing County. There 9,947 students and 686 teachers in Baoxing County. The local education board plans to consolidate the existing 40 schools into 24 schools within 5 years.

There is a very high Tibetan minority population in Baoxing County.

Jennifer and Tarlan our Swedish High School student volunteers from Sweden. Their two weeks of volunteering was sponsored by Grycksbo Paper.

Jenny Wang, The Library Project's China Country Director, and, Jocelyn Jia, The Library Project's Library Donation Lead.

Jennifer and Tarlan being attacked by students.

The Summer Camp - 1st of 15 library donations

The Library Project partnered with Sichuan Quake Relief, based out of Chengdu, to conduct Pre-Assessments of elementary schools in Baoxing County and to conduct a Summer Camp for children affected by the recent 2008 earthquake.

The Summer Camp was a huge success, because it got the books into the first elementary school in the region. It also gave The Library Project the opportunity to Pre-Assess 14 additional elementary schools in Baoxing County. Two months later The Library Project team returned to donate the remaining 14 libraries.

Chillin' with a book, old school style.

Digging through the piles of Chinese language children's books.

Crafts and games were played during the Summer Camp.

A Reading Corner was donated to Yan Nian Elementary School and is currently in a temporary school building. Their old school was damaged by the recent earthquake in 2008. The new school is being built next to it, and should be completed in 2010. Twenty-two students attend Yan Nian Elementary School.

The first of fifteen libraries donated to Baoxing County. This is a "Reading Corner", funded by the Beijing Rotary.

15 libraries, over 3,750 books and 486 happy kids

The remaining photos are a selection of the 14 library donations that were conducted in Fall 2009 in the Sichuan Province.

Get in there!

The Library Project donated many kinds of Educational Toys along with children's books.

Where is Sweden?

Flash cards really help young learners learn Chinese characters.

Thank you Beijing Rotary for funding the 15 library donations to Baoxing County.

Bye!

The Elementary Schools

The schools that The Library Project work with in Baoxing County come in many different shapes and sizes. All 15 were affected in some way by the recent earthquake in 2008. We work with schools that are in different stages of development, both permanent schools and temporary schools. Below are a few photos of the kinds of schools we worked with this past Summer and Fall 2009 in Baoxing County.

"Level 3" Teaching Spot (elementary school).

Temporary elementary school (earthquake affected schools).

Permanent school.

Traveling to the schools

Paved roads, dirt roads, paths, steps, trucks, trains, planes, vans, taxis, cars, motorbikes and our two feet...you name it, we had to use it to get to the remote elementary schools.

Preparing the Reading Corners

Organizing over 3,750 Chinese language children's books is not easy, but is a critical step in any library donation. Once at the schools we get the students involved in the preparation of their new school library.

Stamping the children's books before putting them on the shelves.

Contracts (boring...)

Contracts are signed between The Library Project and the Principal of each school. The contract formalizes the hand-off of the library and states our expectations that the books should be used on a daily basis and allows us to return after six months to conduct a Post-Assessment.

Group photos!

The Library Project likes to get a group photo at our library donations. In general, we get the students to scream as loud as they can, then take the photo. What can we say? Kids like to be heard...