More than 2 million children in Nicaragua attend schools that lack library or reference books. Nicaragua is the second-poorest country in the WesternHemisphere with nearly 4.6 million of the population living on less than $2 per day. Such extreme poverty restricts the ability of local communities to fully support the academic development of their youth.

TREES FOR LIFE provides books and educational resources to establish or improve libraries in poor Nicaraguan communities. Books for all ages areprovided in Spanish at a fraction of the retail cost for a similar book. The goalof Trees for Life is to establish 200 libraries throughout Nicaragua. To date,each of over 50 supported libraries serves communities of up to 15,000 people who realize that literacy is a way out of poverty.