Little Lending Library
In the Spring of 2015, Proyecto Azteca with the help of volunteers from the Alamo Rose Wood workers, spring break volunteers from the University of Texas at Dallas and a donation for materials from Thrivient Financial was able to successfully begin their Little Lending Library project.
The construction of eight a small, mailbox-like libraries decorated by volunteers from various universities were completed in March and the first Lending Library was erected at ARISE: A Resource In Serving Equality located in Las Milpas.
The purpose of the Little Lending Library Project is to provide children living in colonias and other rural areas who typically live far from conventional libraries with the opportunity to borrow and share books with one another in their own neighborhood. Bilingual books were given to Proyecto Azteca from the Pharr Library and the Hidalgo County Literacy Coaliton to help fill the libraries and the Hidalgo County Literacy Coalition has even committed to provided new books to Proyecto Azteca every year so that children using the libraries have fresh new options available.
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In July 2015 Proyecto Azteca put up the second Little Lending Library at a church in the Mercedes colonia of Indian Hills East. Danya Perez-Hernandez of The McAllen Monitor documented the installment of the library in the following article entitled: Little Lending Libraries begin to sprout around local colonias.
