More children in Staffordshire, Shropshire and West Midlands will now have the opportunity to read, enjoy and own books \u2013 to everyone who donated a book: THANK YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\n
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Research shows that reading for pleasure can do many things: promote better health and wellbeing, help to build social connections and relationships with others and of course, aid learning.<\/p>\n
Children\u2019s reading for pleasure is threatened \u2026 as many children do not have books of their own; there are many reasons for this.<\/p>\n
For the last 5 years Cannock Soroptimists have been actively supporting Rotary Books4Home. This is a project run by Rotary Alumni 1210 working throughout Staffordshire, Shropshire and The Black Country. Rotary Books4Home works with schools to gift pre-read books to children. The youngsters choose a book, take it home, read it, enjoy sharing with their family and friends and many for the first time, get to keep a book of their very own forever.<\/p>\n
From time to time, the Soroptimists run a community campaign in order to boost the stock held by Books4Home and they are always overwhelmed by the generosity shown.<\/p>\n
This campaign has been no different \u2013 over the two weeks in July children sorted through their books, deciding which they no longer needed and which could be donated to other children \u2013 sharing the pleasure of reading a book.\u00a0 Many schools going through their libraries at the end of term saved books no longer needed for Soroptimists to collect; Libraries and Hair Salons had donation boxes.<\/p>\n
Once all of the books were collected, Soroptimists sorted and labelled them according to type \u2013 fiction, non-fiction, hard back, paperback etc and then delivered them to the RB4H Team so that they can begin to prepare for the requests coming in before the start of a new term.<\/p>\n
Cannock Soroptimists and Rotary Books4Home were absolutely delighted at the donation of<\/p>\n
4,116 pre-loved children\u2019s books<\/strong><\/p>\n More children in Staffordshire, Shropshire and West Midlands will now have the opportunity to read, enjoy and own books \u2013 to everyone who donated a book: THANK YOU!<\/strong><\/p>\n
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