Give a click for books.
June 14th, 2007 by Matt
On a previous Wednesday (see “A Book Does a Body Good”), we highlighted some simple ways you can help your own children and other children read, and read progressive stuff to boot. And as we put it then: plenty of children don’t own any books, and many others don’t even have access to books outside of school. And as progressives, we owe it to children, all children, to let them have as close to the same youth as we’d want for our own. We owe them this because we want to protect innocence. And we owe them this because want a caring, intelligent, articulate, and creative generation to come. We want a better world, so we want a world with more books.
In that vein, we give you The Literacy Site, a website that offers a rare opportunity: use your mouse to click one digital button and help raise funds to provide books to kids in poverty. This is achieved through advertising on the site (not unlike GoodSearch.com, which we touted this past Wednesday).
They put their motives behind their mission this way:
61 percent of low-income families have no books for children in their homes. Over 80 percent of childcare centers serving low-income children lack age-appropriate books and other print materials. By providing children from low-income families with books that they can take home and keep, together we target the only variable that correlates significantly with reading scores: the number of books in the home.
So, all you’ve got to do is click this sentence to be taken to The Literacy Site. Once you’re there, just click the button that reads “Fund Books For Kids.” There. That’s it. And the beauty part is that you can take this 7-second action every single day.
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Editor’s Note: We’ve researched this a great deal, and just so you know, the aforementioned website is totally legit. Check for yourself by clicking here or here.
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