Escuela 15 de Septiembre, Nuevo Juncales

This school is a small 2 room, K-6 school with 60 students. The school is up a long, bumpy dirt road, in the middle of the mountains.

Entrance to the school, 15 de Septiembre

The director, Cinthia, was a very vibrant young lady who lives in Tegucigalpa, but travels over an hour each day to get to this small school. She is also studying at the university on the weekends. She has been the director of the school for less than a year, but the kids really seem to love her. She was very enthusiastic about recieving the books because they have very few books in their library.

Library with only 1 shelf of story books, 
all from Books for a Better World

The school has a separate room for a library, but they don't have electricity. The director is trying to get electricity hooked up so that eventually the kids can go into the small library room, choose a book themselves, and read the book in the library. But right now it is just too dark for the kids to use the library. But the teachers do go and get books from there to use in their classroom.

This boy was so excited to get some harder books right away 
he started reading this biography about a baseball star.

In one room, Cinthia teaches grades 1, 3, and 5, while the other teacher, Delmi, teaches grades 2, 4, and 6. The teachers have the older kids read to the younger kids to help them learn to read.

The students favorite types of books are story books and tongue twisters.

This little one is learning all about different animal, 
while wearing his smock/uniform

This school was visited by Volunteers Kira and Alice Gartell in July 2011.