United Through Reading helps parents separated from their children share the simple joys of reading aloud together.
Picture a young Soldier in Afghanistan walking into a tent, dropping his gear, and picking up a copy of Green Eggs and Ham to read to his daughter at home. Imagine, back home in base housing, his wife and daughter sit down to watch Daddy read a bedtime story from the other side of the world. At that moment, Daddy is home.
The Military Program, has more than 250 recording locations worldwide including nearly every deployed US Navy ship, in 75 USOs, and from forward operating locations around the world, including 46 camps in Afghanistan.
More than one million American children are separated from one or both parents due to military deployment and nearly double that for children separated from their loved ones due to incarceration, drug treatment, or social services. Still others are separated from their grandparents, and therefore, from generational love and learning. United Through Reading has served 1 million beneficiaries over the past 21 years.
If you know of someone who can benefit from this program, please pass along the resources listed below.
Original Article;
http://www.serve.gov/stories_detail.asp?tbl_servestories_id=407
I found this story at a government website - United We Serve
http://www.serve.gov/stories_all.asp
United Through Reading website:
http://www.unitedthroughreading.org/
Saturday, October 30, 2010
United Through Reading
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2 comments:
Dear Linda,
this is such a heartening idea... i just recently read about how grandparents can use this idea with their grandkids and i hope to do that... thanks for including this information in your blog! ~Cynthia from http://how-to-be-an-optimist.blogspot.com/
HI Cynthia and Welcome.
Optimists need to stick together. I hope we can share ideas and provide instpiration for each other.
Best Wishes
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