Sagam Primary School Library - Building a Foundation for Learning!

An exciting new project is now underway at Sagam Primary School! With funding support from both the community of Sagam Village and the Bowman School community in Lexington, Massachusetts, a new library is now under construction at Sagam Primary School. This collaborative initiative will enhance the ability for students at Sagam to select and read books from a variety of genres and at multiple levels, and will provide resources for both the the students and staff at Sagam, as well as community members from the village. The first step in construction was clearing and leveling the area where the library will be built.
In the photo to the right, one of the teachers at Sagam Primary School shows how the foundation, built using bricks that were manufactured locally, have created a strong, level foundation for the planned library building. The soil in Yala province is rich with clay, and there is an area within walking distance to the school where bricks are manufactured by local residents of the village. As the walls begin to rise from the solid foundation, local village residents and faculty from the school tour the project.



During visits to Sagam Primary School in the summers of 2008 and 2010, Bowman staff brought collections of books for students and teachers to use in classrooms and for general research. The books included selections of nonfiction texts, novels, teacher resources, works of fiction, and picture books that described how young people live in a wide variety of culture throughout the globe. These books will form the basis of what we hope will be a rich collection of resources for the community of Sagam Village.