I just received an email yesterday afternoon that the barrels have reached Dominica! So much for the 2-3 week shipping time from Portsmouth! It actually took 2x that. Lesson learned for next year.
We still need to work through some details to get the barrels to the school, but we were overjoyed to hear that the barrels are no longer sitting in Miami.
Next stop for the barrels: customs. Then they get loaded into a vehicle (all vehicles are generically referred to as "transport" in Dominica) and then delivered to the town of St. Joseph, where they will be opened by Ms Verne Pendanque, principal of the school, and distributed.
One of the things we talked with Ms Pendanque about as we were wrapping up our stay there was what else we could do. Was there a meaningful project that would really help improve the quality of education for the kids in the school. As we talked, we kept coming back to books and realized that what they really could use is help building the school library. The current library is a small room with just a few small bookshelves, housing just a hundred books or so.
The more we discussed this, the more excited we became about the possibility of creating a library with encyclopedias and other useful reference books. So we're beginning to investigate this in more detail. We need not only books but book shelves (ideally with wheels so they can be moved). Nothing need be new. If anyone has thoughts on sources for any of these items, please let us know!
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