Book Drive Updates

Recycling Center Donates

A local recycling center recently donated approximately 1,000 used children’s books to Books for Life. Upon seeing the books at the recycling center, one of the workers remembered the “Teach the World to Read” Book Drive and decided to donate the books at his local Dillons. Several calls later, he called Books for Life and the books were picked up and brought to the Wichita office. The books will be sorted and packed by volunteers and will be sent to underprivileged children across the USA.
Scholastic Donates

Scholastic recently donated 500 Spanish children’s storybooks to Books for Life. All of the books will be shipped to Nicaragua where they will be distributed to one of several Books for Life libraries. To learn more about the libraries these books will be sent to, please visit www.booksforlife.org.
Books Sent

In March, 8000 books from the "Teach the World to Read" Book Drive were sent from Wichita, Kansas to New Windsor, Marylandto Church World Service. Once at the books arrive in New Windsor they will be taken to the harbor in Baltimore and will be packed into a shipping container and make their way to Pakistan by boat.

 Please feel free to check out our photo album of the shipping process, thus far, on Facebook.
Girl Scouts Donate

Girl Scouts from Valley Center recently donated five hundred books to the “Teach the World to Read” Book Drive! The books were lovingly sorted and packed by the girls during troop meetings and were brought to the Trees for Life office. This is the second year the girls have participated in the book drive.


Rainbow Girls Donate

Kansas Rainbow Girls recently donated over two hundred and fifty children's books to the "Teach the World to Read" Book Drive ! Donations were part of a recent event  in Wichita where participants were asked to bring children’s storybooks for the book drive. The books were then brought to the Trees for Life office by several girls and were sorted and packed to be sent overseas.
Students Donate

Students at ElDorado High School collected over one hundred books this past month for the “Teach the World to Read” Book Drive. The books were donated by fellow students and were brought to the ElDorado Dillons. Volunteers helped to pick up, sort and pack the books to be sent on their way overseas.
1,500 Little Golden Books

A Wichita man recently donated 1,500 Little Golden books from his collection to Books for Life for the “Teach the World to Read” Book Drive. The books are in wonderful condition and are a very generous donation to spread literacy. Originally the books were developed to do just that, spread literacy at an affordable price. Many of the first books published in the 1950’s were only 25 cents !
Wichita Eagle Article

The "Teach the World to Read" Book Drive was recently highlighted in the weekend edition of the "Wichita Eagle". Volunteers across Kansas collected the donated books from their local Dillons, throughout the month of February.  A photo of volunteers collecting the books at a local Wichita store was included with the article. You can view both the article and the photo here.
Student Posters

Several Wichita Collegiate School Students volunteered with Books for Life this past month in their graphic arts class. The students created promotional posters for the "Teach the World to Read" book drive with clip art from www.booksforlife.org/bookdrive. The posters were printed in color on 11' x 17" paper and have been hung up around Collegiate. What a wonderful way to share love and spread hope !
College News Article

"The Lantern", Butler Community College's newspaper, recently covered the school's participation in the 'Teach the World to Read" Book Drive. Children's books are being collected for the Book Drive at both the Andover and ElDorado campuses. The most recent count of donations at the school approximates 150 books. The books were given by college students, faculty, staff and children in the day care.

Below is the article: