By Kassia Binkowski | Director of Development & Communications
As the end of summer creeps near, we want to stop for a moment and say thank you. Thank you for an incredibly successful summer. In the past two months you have helped us raise more than $60,000 - enough for us to expand to our fourth community this winter!
That's right, thanks to you, we're going to grow!
When school starts in January in Guatemala, we'll have hired an additional community facilitator and accepted fifteen new students to leverage literacy for social transformation in another town. Because of you, we'll start 2014 with 55 teens who will collectively reach more than 3,500 children.
Our founder and Executive Director, Linda Smith, has always believed that the deep network we continue to grow in one corner of Guatemala is only possible when we grow thoughtfully and strategically. That's exactly what we intend to do. We plan to expand the network we've already established so that more leaders, teenagers, children, teachers, and families can benefit from literacy.
At Reading Village, we focus on literacy becasue it is not only an end in itself but also the means to other, more transformative ends like economic self-sufficiency, good health, and political voice. This cycle of change starts with you. Your investment provides a foundation for our growth. Since 2007, Reading Village has worked with 56 teenagers who have collectively reached more than 3,000 children with innovative literacy promotion programs and this is just the beginning. Your investments over teh course of the past two months (not to mention the past six years) will help us expand to eventually reach thousands more children.
Thank you for making this growth possible. You've rocked our world, and together we can rock theirs.
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P.S. We still have a few spots to fill on our annual Learning Journey. Come with us to Guatemala from November 2-9 to see for yourself just how profound of an impact literacy is having in these communities. Visit our site to learn more about the trip and hurry to sign up before it's too late - http://readingvillage.org/literacy-programs/learning-journey/
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