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Thousands of books for Salvadoran children
December 15, 2004

In a ceremony on December 15, 2004 Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay handed Salvadoran minister of Education Darlyn Meza, 18,500 books for programs to improve rural education.

In a ceremony on December 15, 2004 Ambassador H. Douglas Barclay handed Salvadoran minister of Education Darlyn Meza, 18,500 books for programs to improve rural education.

This donation, worth more than $230,000, is a joint effort between the Public Affairs Office of the Embassy of the United States of America and the International Book Bank (IBB). The books will be distributed to 250 rural schools of the Departments of Cabañas, Chalatenango, Cuscatlán, La Libertad, San Vicente and Usulután.

The textbooks cover language, mathematics and science for students from kindergarten to sixth grade. The donation also includes atlases, encyclopedias and teaching materials.

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