This Spring, the Brentwood community will be working together to recycle our home libraries of children’s books and redistribute them to Los Angeles schools in desperate need of books.
Led by BookEnds, a Los Angeles nonprofit organization, Brentwood schools, youth organizations, homeowners associations, retailers and civic groups will be organizing book drives and drop off centers to encourage our community to give new life to their home libraries of children’s books. On May 20th, Brentwood families will be invited to come help sort, box and distribute the books.
The project is a new pilot program of BookEnds. Annually 20,000 children throughout Los Angeles volunteer for BookEnds to organize book drives in their schools to recycle their children’s books directly into the hands of students in schools and youth organizations. BookEnds is built upon the belief that all kids need books to learn to read and all kids need to have the opportunity to learn to help.
More than 2.3 million books have been donated through BookEnds to help build a more literate community. But many children living in Los Angeles still lack sufficient books in their schools to develop their reading skills. California ranks 49th in the nation in books per student in its elementary schools libraries and last in public library access.
But according to BookEnds president Robin Keefe, “we can change that. Just as we have learned to recycle our bottles and cans, so we can learn to recycle our books.†If you would like more information or want to help, please contact:
Robin at: rkeefe@bookends.org
or visit: www.bookends.org
Book Drive Coming to Brentwood
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