Bookcase for Every Child’ Literacy Project Now on the Web
Literacy advocates in Conway, Ark., have developed a project to promote literacy and have made the plans for conducting the project available on a new web site.
The project, known as “A Bookcase for Every Child,” is the brainchild of nationally-syndicated newspaper columnist Jim Davidson. It was launched in 2005 by volunteers who built 50 personalized bookcases and collected 6,000 “gently-used” children’s books and gave the bookcases to 100 children. The volunteers plan to continue the project each year with 50 more bookcases.
Go to www.jimdavidsoncolumn.com/bookcase to read more about the project.
The project’s web site includes a narrative, photos, bookcase plans, front-page newspaper articles and suggestions about raising funds.
Davidson has pledged all of the profits from his book “Learning, Earning & Giving Back” to fund the project. Private donations also fund a portion of the program.
In the United States, 61 percent of low-income families do not own any books and up to 80 percent of children in low-income families grow up in single-parent homes.