Share Literacy Canada We are maintaining and expanding our book donation program to help as many Canadian children as we can. Many of these children have no books. Many will learn to read and develop their literacy skills using books we donate. As always, we are dependent on your generous support for the success of these projects. With your help we can donate books to thousands of deserving children at low cost through non-profit literacy partners. Our Immediate NeedWith contributions totaling $186,000, we can donate at least 50,000 books this year.
ICE would like to distribute thousands more books if we could afford to do so. The demand is vast for good books for children who have so little. Thus far, eleven Canadian literacy and early childhood organizations have expressed high interest in Hoopoe books for their programs serving needy children. Combined they could easily distribute over 50,000 books per year. Possibilities for the FutureThe objectives contemplated for ICE activities are quite broad, and will hopefully evolve over time to include various projects to further cross-cultural exchange. For now, we would like to undertake the following two projects: Francophone Book Distribution Program For $26,040 we can distribute 7,000 copies of a new French edition of The Lion who Saw Himself in the Water to Francophone children in need. We are looking for volunteers to contact Francophone literacy organizations to determine their needs and their interest. We need help with French translation, back translation and page layout using Quark 6.0. Our Canadian PartnersAbbotsford Community Services |
