By Marsha Guerrier | Executive Director
Continuing with the second half of the school year we are pleased to report that the Just As I Am Reading program has been welcomed back to the Forest Road Elementary School in Valley Stream, NY as part of its February theme of Kindness. Our founder Marsha Guerrier was invited to be the guest reader, reading our designated book What It Means to Be Kind by Rana DiOrio. Forty seven children participated in our story time and again shared stories of how they treat people with kindness and how they will begin to be more aware of others that are not being treated fairly or kind. Each child was given a book to take home and read with their families. We believe that this program allows for children to speak openly about the effects of bullying and being kind to one another. It also opens the discussion for families to have together in an effort to prevent and stop bullying.
In addition we have invited by the New Horizon Counseling Center as a participant and sponsor for their annual “Superheroes Against Bullying” event happening on March 4th in Valley Stream, NY. The event is an indoor winter walk to benefit the children’s services at the center. As a sponsor we will be providing the registered children and their families our designated book as well as discuss our organizations efforts in eliminated bullying.
I thank you again for your continued support I look forward to sharing with you all the success of the events in our next report. It is because of donors like you we are able to have such impactful projects in our community. Please continue your support by sharing our project with your network and to continue funding our project.
Again, thank you and I look forward to sharing more stories from our project team in the future.
Warm Regards,
Marsha Guerrier
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