More than two years after the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, vast numbers of Haitians are still struggling just to return to something resembling normal life. The first thing you ...
Throughout February, students at Wanamaker Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, brought pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollars to class for the school’s annual Bucks for Books fundraiser, now ...
The facade of Haiti’s National Library, c. 2018 (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Armed groups ransacked the National Library of Haiti yesterday, April 3, endangering its priceless archival collections ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
ESSEX -- Only about half of Haitians older than 15 know how to read, because they lack the resources to attend school. To help address the problem, Sister Cities Essex Haiti, a new nonprofit, plans to ...
Studies have shown that males are represented nearly twice as often as females in books for children. Now Yale alumnae aim to empower girls around the globe through the creation of the Library For All ...
ESSEX -- Only about half of Haitians older than 15 know how to read, because they lack the resources to attend school. To help address the problem, Sister Cities Essex Haiti, a new nonprofit, plans to ...
The John Carter Brown Library may soon embark on an initiative to digitize hundreds of early Haitian documents and make them available to the country's residents, according to Edward Widmer, director ...
Book by book, and with donations large and small -- some from people who are illiterate -- a library is taking shape in one of the poorest places in destitute Haiti. Cite Soleil, a slum in the capital ...
One of the many pieces of Haitian art donated to the Oviatt Library Special collections by CSUN professor Dolores M. Yonker. Photo Credit: Armando Ruiz / Senior Photographer CSUN students aim to clear ...