National Literacy Day
November 1, 2007 | 9:26 am
Just a quick note today to remind everyone that today is National Literacy Day, so it’s a great time to do something simple: give a child a book by visiting the Literacy Site today.
With the holidays coming, you might also want to consider patronizing some of the advertisers on the site, too, and shop for some of your holiday gifts there.
Check out this Squidoo lens for LitLife, another program that’s easy to get involved with. And there are scores more, some of them highlighted in my book, Open Your Heart with Reading. The point isn’t which group you help, but that you help someone; because in the end, do we really want to live in an illiterate society? Call it enlightened self-interest. Call it kindness. Call it caring. Just do it!
One-third of all Americans, 90 million people, are functionally illiterate. We should be ashamed. On this day of all days, let’s do something about it!
– Jeannette Cézanne
www.JeannetteCezanne.com
Posted by: reading, reading books, Opening the heart, Joy, Overcoming difficulty, Overcoming obstacles — jcezanne
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