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Reading changes lives
World Book Day - Sunday
April 23, is all about celebrating reading and books.
Reading paves the way for
intellectual and emotional growth throughout our lives. Studies show that there
are many benefits to reading — from helping us overcome stress to keeping our
brains sharp.
Books nurture our
imaginations and our empathy, take us places we've never been, and introduce us
to ideas and people we might never have otherwise encountered. Literacy skills
can help empower people, positively impact communities and enrich lives.
Happy World Book Day!
Join us in supporting literacy
The charities below work
to provide books and reading resources at home and around the world.
Worldreader -
their mission is to create a world where everyone is a reader.
Room to Read -
a focus on improving literacy and gender equality in education in the
developing world.
First Book -
provides new books, learning material and other essentials to children in need.
Amazon dot com is also donating and
accepting donations.
Warren,
ReplyDeleteThanks for providing this info!
I can't imagine a life without reading books. I always have at least two books going; one by my nesting chair downstairs and one beside my bed. Although I buy a lot of books, I also get a lot of them from two local libraries. I belong to two book clubs, and I almost always get the books for them from the libraries. I also donate books to their library book sales.
ReplyDeleteWhile we're on the subject, please remember that Trump's new budget completely eliminates funding for museums and libraries. If you support access to libraries for all people in our communities, please consider contacting your congress members to let them know that you support libraries, and please support keeping these fairly minimal funds in the budget.
ReplyDeleteWe need our libraries so everyone has access to information. Without libraries, we lose an essential part of our freedom--the right to information, which increases the mentality and education of our population. Without libraries, we'd be a nation of "reality," soaps, and melodrama TV or violent movies. That isn't where our heads should be.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Warren, for shining a light on these great groups specifically and on the wider issue of literacy. People, and especially politicians, don't grasp the huge problem of illiteracy and low-literacy in our country. I had a professor who said if you wanted to bring down incarceration rates, bring up literacy rates. A huge percentage of those in prison have low literacy or are illiterate. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that people who can't read don't have great options in life.
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