The Rotary Club of Victoria-Harbourside provided a $3000 donation to 1000×5, and Executive Director Eileen Eby is delighted. “During COVID we have had to alter plans as you can imagine, these dollars have helped us immensely.” 1000×5 collects books or…
The 2016 – 2017 school year begins this week and alongside the children entering the buildings will be the thirty or so 1000X5 volunteers – eager to see what books arrived from schools over the summer. And just as eager…
On Tuesday mornings in July and August, Peninsula “1000 X 5” Project volunteers join members of Saanich Peninsula Literacy at the Open-Air Library (OAL) at Beacon Park in Sidney. The OAL was initiated last summer by Marlene Dergousoff, Literacy Outreach…
Is there magic involved in sharing books with young children? If there was magic, we would wave a wand and magically, books would be in abundance in the home of every young child. And if there was even more pixie…
Kaitlyn and her teacher, Mme Marss looking through some of the books Do you think 11 year olds can lead change? We know one who can and did. In early March, Kaitlyn, a Grade 5 student from Ecole Quadra Elementary,…
Together, we have collected about 250 000 books for redistribution to young children and families in our region. Often, people ask: Where do you get all those books? The answer is: From various sources. Books come to us from: schools……
Does reading to young children really make a difference? We think it does, and we are not alone. Ask our Primary teachers and their answer will be that they can tell who has been read to and who has not…
