- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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18 people are interested
Book Packing Party!
ORGANIZATION: Books for a Better World
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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18 people are interested
Come join our fun "Book Packing Party" held in Tempe, Arizona. You just need to bring your muscles, or your muscled friends, as we label, sort and pack approximately 6,000 books for this summer’s book deliveries to 100 rural schools in Central America. This would be a daunting task without the help of our fantastic volunteers!
Where:
906 W 14th St
Tempe, Arizona
When:
Saturday, March 24th, 2018
10am until we're done! (usually around 4pm)
Come for all or part of this time.
We will provide drinks and snacks for all our wonderful volunteers!
If you can't make it on this day, don't despair! We can use extra help to get ready for this event, as well. To set up another time to volunteer, please contact us at kira@booksforabetterworld.org.
For more info about Books for a Better World, please visit our website at www.booksforabetterworld.org
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About Books for a Better World
Location:
P.O. Box 23811, Tempe, AZ 85285, US
Mission Statement
Literacy is the dedicated purpose of Books for a Better World. We seek to inspire, empower, and motivate children to achieve their full potential by helping them to develop a lifelong love of learning.
Description
Literacy is the dedicated purpose of Books for a Better World. It seeks to enfranchise, to empower and to motivate children in developing nations by establishing libraries and scholarship programs.
Books for a Better World was established to help break the cycle of illiteracy that cripples developing nations. Often, there are no books and the school day is dull and unstimulating. There is little reason to attend school thus the children drop out and illiteracy continues. Most children have never seen a book that is not a schoolbook and there is little connection between learning the vowels, learning to sound out words and reading a story. Children's literature increases a children's ability to imagine, to think analytically and to experience the world with greater compassion. The ability to read is empowering.
In 2018, BBW provided collections of books to over 100 rural locations troughout Central America. The libraries are in schools, orphanages, small municipal libraries or cultural centers. The books, all in Spanish, are storybooks, funny stories, adventures, legends, myths, biographies, natural science books and novels.CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
906 W 14th StTempe, AZ 85281
DATE POSTED
February 2, 2018
SKILLS
- Literacy / Reading
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- 1-6 hours
- Lift up to 20 lbs, although we have other opportunities if you aren't able to do that.