Technical Textbooks

A couple of people have commented on my post about Picture Day. In it I mentioned that the library at Cale's school is small and poorly supplied. I received a couple of comments on that and was asked how people can help.

It is something that Cale and I want to look into on a larger scale next school year. We were thinking about contacting technical institutes and TAFEs in other countries about donations of textbooks that were going to be discarded otherwise. I also was looking up publishing houses that publish technical textbooks to ask about donations.

However, if you are interested in helping, you are welcome. At Cale's school they teach woodworking (construction and carpentry), fine arts (painting, carving, drawing), welding, plumbing, sewing, cooking, electrical, automotive and computers. Every student also takes Maths and Communications (English). If you have any textbooks on any of these subjects or any books of any kind that might be helpful (art coffee table books, woodworking coffee table books) they would be welcome in his school library. Posters or other educational materials on the subjects would also be welcome. Diagrams, technical manuals also welcome. However, keep in mind, if something is so outdated it is useless in the States, it will probably be the same here and then instead of being trash in the States, it will be trash in Samoa.

There is no diplomatic pouch. You can simply send things to Cale at:

Cale Reeves, PCV

Peace Corps

Private Mail Bag

Apia, Samoa (Western Samoa, Independent Samoa)

South Pacific

If you would prefer to send things directly to the school, contact me on the blog and I will set you up with an address. 

If you are interested in helping in other ways or organizing a large-scale shipment of books (there is another PCV here who had an entire shipping container of books sent to her primary school), contact me on the blog and I will help you with that as well.

— Sara