{"id":1344,"date":"2017-10-23T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T20:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:05:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:05:28","slug":"mst-alumnus-quintin-pastrana-profiled-in-esquire-magazine-on-the-opening-of-his-500th-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumnus Quintin Pastrana profiled in Esquire magazine on the opening of his 500th library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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from Esquire magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Books Saved Him, So Now He’s Building His 500th Library: <\/a>Quintin Pastrana’s Library Renewal Partnership bets on libraries as a way to save Filipino communities.”<\/span><\/p>\n

from the article:<\/p>\n

“For Barangay 105, Tondo, it started with a small space. Around 30 square meters, which\u2014by the standards of a Metro Manila slum that\u2019s so densely populated that it could not be relocated to Bulacan or Laguna\u2014is not very small at all. In 2014, neighboring slumlords began encroaching on this precious empty parcel, and were just about to claim it for themselves before Remy Cabello, a local volunteer teacher, reached out to Quintin Pastrana for help. She told him that if she could not convince the slumlords that she could build a classroom with a library there, they would take it away.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWe had two weeks before they decided to close that place down,\u201d says Pastrana, the founder of the Library Renewal Partnership<\/b>, a coalition that builds libraries for literacy and community empowerment. \u201cSo we had a text brigade going on, emails, Facebook shoutouts\u2014it was Christmas, anyway.” <\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em>Read the rest of the article on the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Books Saved Him, So Now He’s Building His 500th Library: Quintin Pastrana’s Library Renewal Partnership bets on libraries as a way to save Filipino communities.” from the article: “For Barangay 105, Tondo, it started with a small space. 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