No seriously. I have come to realize this over and over and over again since my arrival in St. Vincent. I know that I was aware of it while I was in the states but something about being far from home has opened my eyes to all of the wonderful people in the world. These are the people who take time. They take time to be with their friends and family. They take time to show everyone love and respect. They take time to make the world a better place.
This coming Friday, I am lucky to be joined by a group of these super souls! A group of students (and their leaders and their leader's kids) from the Wesley Student Group of Western Carolina University are coming to SVG!! Together with the Layou community, they will help revitalize a school library and create a learning space that begs children to come inside and explore. They will help the school utilize a HUGE book donation from the International Alliance for Child Literacy (more on this in a future blog!) that will ensure that every student can borrow a book every night of the week. Yep, I said it, some people just ROCK!
And since you rock and they rock... we will be keeping a daily journal and posting it here! It will be a great way for the students to show the progress in the library and for me to show an intimate piece of my volunteer work in St. Vincent.
To get the party started, the group created a video that can be seen here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNjYdiNY-_I or by searching "St. Vincent" pre-trip on YouTube.
I am thrilled to have these Partners in Peace coming to my beautiful island home and I feel so downright lucky to know that there are people like this all over the world. Surely, if we all joined together, we could move mountains.
waiting to receive our book donation from the IACL, so can they come back and visit GSS??!!??!!
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