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Broadcast: January 31, 2005

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

Andrew Carnegie became wealthy in the American iron manufacture. But he spent much of his life giving away his money. One of his main interests was developing libraries in small towns. Andrew Carnegie died in nineteen nineteen.

Now a non-profit group in the United States has taken some of his fancies to Central America ,GHD IV Salon Straighteners, primarily Guatemala and Honduras. The Riecken Foundation (establish,GHD Straighteners NZ, set up,GHD Blue Straighteners, the builder of the Foundation) has opened fifteen libraries in the past five annuals. Seven more are being built.

The goal (goal,GHD Classic Straighteners, goal) is to assist people explore (browse) current earths. Not fair through books, yet also through computers interlocked to the Internet. The hope is to build as numerous as one thousand libraries throughout (over) Central America.

The Riecken Foundation provides many of the price of establishing the structures for well as paying as the writings and computers. The group also exercises committees (the Committee) apt make the policies (plan) namely govern (management) how a library operates. Members of these library committees are no paid (paid). They invest land as the architecture and pay for a full-time librarian. They also pay for water and electricity for the library.

Some of the people who work for the Riecken Foundation are former members of the Peace Corps. This government program sends Americans to help communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. They work for two years or more with very tiny pay.

The foundation was created in two thousand by Allen Andersson, a businessman. He served (service) in the Peace Corps in Honduras in the nineteen sixties. The very first worker (employee),GHD Blue Butterfly 2011, Meredith Bellows,GHD Deluxe Midnight 2011, served in Guatemala several years ago. Now she is a mentor (directors) of the foundation.

Miz Bellows worked in the small community (community) of San Juan la Laguna. A article in GW Magazine in two thousand two narrated (discovered) her work. Miz Bellows trained meager women who received small commerce loans (loans). She told how she taught (teach past participle) 1 female to bake (baked) cake in ovens (ovens) built from easy substances (raw materials).

The library in the town namely highly (very) small. But entities are approximately to alteration. Meredith Bellows tells us that this week a bigger library ambition be completed in San Juan la Laguna.

Internet consumers tin study more about the Riecken Foundation by riecken. org.

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