Read For the Fourth
June 27th, 2011 @ 2:15 pm |
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While perusing Facebook a few weeks ago, I read a status update from a sorority sister, K. He husband, J, was recently deployed and appreciated all the care packages he received from family and friends. But he wanted to do something for his fellow airmen who had yet to receive something from back home, especially since Independence Day is just around the corner. K recruited friends to volunteer to adopt a service person in her husband’s unit.
Included in her e-mail to us, among with the list of razors, socks, toothpaste and games, was information about a really cool program. United Through Reading collects gently used or new children’s books. Deployed parents are video taped reading the book aloud then the DVD and book are sent to the child so he or she can read along with his or her parent. How cool is that? I will be sending books and encourage you to check out the program, too. If you would like to send books directly to J’s unit, let me know and I will send you the information. Of course, if you would like to “adopt” a service person, I can get you information about that, too.
From J:
Another project that I am putting together here is asking for donations of gently used and/or new children’s books for ages 0-6 years, i.e., Thomas the Train, Mickey Mouse, Dora the Explorer, Curious George, Little Critters, etc. They have a program here that an airman can read a book and it is recorded via DVD and shipped with the book that has been read to their child. The problem is that that they do not have a lot of books for younger children and the time limit is 20 minutes per dvd. So some of the books that they do have will exceed the time limit when read. If anyone would like to send any books over here simply address them to me and I will be sure to get them into the program. Thank you for all help thus far with the care packages.
