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Governor's Project: Literacy for Life
Project Description:
Every year, the District Governor chooses a project for the district to participate in. This year, the Governor’s project will be “Literacy for Life”, and we will directly work with Reach out and Read Minnesota. Reach out and Read Minnesota aims to strengthen families with young children through guidance from clinicians about nurturing relationships through shared reading. With over 300+ partner clinics across Minnesota, clinicians trained in their program give books to children, as well as developmental guidance to parents and caregivers at the child’s routine visits. This gives children and families the resources and knowledge they need to build a better future.
District Governor's Project Mission:
The overall goal of the Governor’s project “Lit for Life” is to increase awareness of literacy rates in children. It encourages Key Clubbers across the district to expand their knowledge on an important topic like this by working with young children and participating in service projects.
Interested in helping out? Make sure to record your impact and service you've done with THIS form! Look at service project examples below.
Ways to help out:
In collaboration with Reach out and Read MN:
Host a book drive (these books should be brought to DCON or to Reach out and Read MN's facility in Bloomington)
Sort books at Reach out and Read MN's book storage site
Read to children at volunteer clinics
Send a monetary donation to Reach out and Read MN
*Make sure to contact Eleanor GrandPre from Reach out and Read MN so they can get you and your club set up (if you want to help sort books and read to children at volunteer clinics)
To support Gov Project in general:
Build little libraries
Read to younger children
Volunteer at your local library
Host a book tasting event
Write thank you cards for your local/school librarians
Make bookmarks and donate them to your local elementary school
Tutor struggling students
Host a reading workshop
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