The Rotary Club of Victoria-Harbourside provided a $3000 donation to 1000×5, and Executive Director Eileen Eby is delighted. “During COVID we have...

Written by Eileen Eby, 1000x5 Victoria Co-Ordinator What a mountain of donated books! It is so heartening to go into the classrooms where the three...

Written by Daphne Macnaughton, 1000x5 Peninsula Co-Ordinator When the PCEC “1000 X 5” Project began in April 2008, the volunteers and I set a very...

Written by Denise Brown, 1000x5 Westshore Co-Ordinator As I was sorting books this week, I came across two favourite wordless picture books and...

Check out our new look.... written by Eileen Eby 1000X5 Victoria Check out our new look.  We have updated our 1000X5 website and would love to share...

Written by Eileen Eby, 1000x5 Victoria Co-Ordinator Frequently, I speak to groups about all the books that 1000X5 distributes into homes. When...

Written by Daphne Macnaughton, 1000x5 Peninsula Co-Ordinator Most of us have shared delight with young children ending their renditions of the...

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...

On Tuesday mornings in July and August, Peninsula “1000 X 5” Project volunteers join members of Saanich Peninsula Literacy at the Open-Air Library...

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...

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...

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...

016 The three 1000X5 projects have been gifted not only with an astounding number of books, but also a talented and committed cadre of volunteers....

It’s not too hard to imagine this:  Two families are living in the same house.  Upstairs, a young professional couple live with their three...

Maya and her mother Kristin have a lot to teach us about sharing the gift of literacy. When Maya turned five, her mother hosted a ‘toonie’ party,...

I love the image in our masthead. The baby, all of 9 months old, is in command of that book! She holds the pages while intently studying the image...

September is an exciting time for the “1000 X 5” Project leaders and volunteers!  Each fall, we resume weekly work bees in schools where we collect,...