Books for Schools

The state schools are greatly under resourced in Honduras. Those nearest the towns and cities get what few supplies are available. The schools situated high in the mountain areas get very little.

They are attempting to teach the children how to read. However, the only reading material available to them for practise is the text in their lesson manual. I really feel for children who can read and have no books to devour. I also feel frustrated that those who struggle to learn to read have no books to practise upon.

It is difficult for us to send them reading material. The problem is that the books need to be in main land Spanish. There are virtually no books for sale in the UK written in Spanish.

Can anyone help by buying new or second hand books in Spanish for these children, or collecting/transporting the books back to the UK? They are available in Spain and many parts of America. We have bought what we can off the internet here in England but we still need many more school readers and easy non- fiction books. The age group we need to cover are 5-18 years. We cannot use books written in the Catalan Spanish spoken in Barcelona and Menorca. This is significantly different to the mainland Castellan Spanish spoken around the world. If you are seeking books in Catalan speaking areas you need to ask in which type of Spanish the books are written. We managed to collect 90 books in the correct Spanish on a week’s visit to Menorca. The Balearic Islands and southern Spain do have second hand book shops. Supermarket and small stationery/ sweet shops also sell school reading books. They often fill a half shelf in the shop.