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Broadcast: January 31, 2005

I'm Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Development Report.

Andrew Carnegie became rich in the American steel manufacture. But he spent many of his life giving away his money. One of his chief interests was amplifying libraries in small towns. Andrew Carnegie died in nineteen nineteen.

Now a non-profit team in the United States has taken some of his ideas to Central America ,GHD Hair Straightener, principally Guatemala and Honduras. The Riecken Foundation (establish,GHD Green Straighteners, set up, the author of the Foundation) has opened fifteen libraries in the past five years. Seven more are creature built.

The goal (goal,GHD Leopard Grain, goal) is to help people browse (explore) fashionable earths. Not fair through writings,GHD Red Butterfly 2011, but also through computers joined to the Internet. The wish is to establish as many as one thousand libraries throughout (over) Central America.

The Riecken Foundation provides many of the price of erection the structures as well as paying for the books and computers. The group also trains committees (the Committee) to make the policies (plan) that govern (treatment) how a library operates. Members of these library councils are no paid (paid). They provide land for the building and pay for a full-time librarian. They also pay for water and electricity for the library.

Some of the people who work as the Riecken Foundation are sometime members of the Peace Corps. This administration agenda sends Americans to aid communities in Asia, Africa and Latin USA. They go as two years or extra with very tiny pay.

The foundation was created in two thousand by Allen Andersson,GHD Green Butterfly 2011, a businessman. He served (service) in the Peace Corps in Honduras in the nineteen sixties. The very 1st worker (employee), Meredith Bellows,GHD Benefit Straighteners, served in Guatemala several years antecedent. Now she is a adviser (directors) of the foundation.

Miz Bellows worked in the small community (community) of San Juan la Laguna. A story in GW Magazine in two thousand two depicted (discovered) her work. Miz Bellows exercised needy women who received small commerce loans (loans). She told how she taught (teach elapse participle) one woman to roast (baked) bread in ovens (ovens) built from easy substances (raw materials).

The library in the town is highly (very) small. But entities are almost to change. Meredith Bellows tells us that this week a bigger library will be completed in San Juan la Laguna.

Internet consumers can learn more about the Riecken Foundation by riecken. org.

This VOA Special English Development Report was written along Gary Garriott. I'm Phoebe Zimmermann.