Students pack books to send to Kenyan school libraries. Courtesy photo

Pinon School is trying to help kids in Africa by sending books to the kids in Kenya so they can learn to read and read more.

We gathered one thousand books and we wrote a grant to the Alex Kirk Foundation, which donated $200 to help us finish our goal of $500. We rasied  have all the money we need to send the books to Kenya. People from the community donated bookmarks they made which also helped pay to send the books.

Below are a few excerpts from interviews conducted by sixth grader Will Kramer with some of the other sixth grade students about what the project means to them and what they enjoyed about the project:

• making libraries in Africa
• making bookmarks to sell
• gathering the books and packing them
• this project was a fun one
• this project helps other kids in need in other countries
• the neat idea of the kids receiving the books