We are pleased to announce that Elson Dale Low, a senior at
Amherst College, has been accepted into Reader to Reader’s Springboard Program.
The Springboard Program helps college students launch global
literacy projects all around the world, and Elson Dale Low’s project, the
Cognitive Initiative, develops academic summer programs in Guyana.
Under the terms of the Springboard Program, Reader to Reader
has awarded Low $2,000 to be used for staffing costs and other project
needs.
This is a very well-thought-out project,” notes Reader to
Reader founder David Mazor. “We are pleased to support the excellent work that Elson
Dale Low is doing, and know it is making an important educational contribution
to the young people of Guyana.”
Past Springboard projects
have built a library in a coffee farming village in Costa Rica, started a
school for special needs students in the Dominican Republic, supported a school
in Haiti, built a community center in Nicaragua, and founded a school Nigeria.
Click to see a one-minute film on the Springboard Program.
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