Phoenix-Area Girl Scout Troop Donates 1,500 Books To Homeless Children
By Ginny Reese
October 7, 2020
A Phoenix-area girl scout troop is donating around 1,500 books to UMOM New Day Centers.
This Phoenix homeless shelter serves about 150 families at a time, which means that there are usually around 300-350 kids in the shelter at once.
Darlene Newsome, UMOM's CEO stated, "Our children absolutely love books. They love to read. They just don't have books. They come with very few belongings to the homeless shelter. Books are something they look for and they are so happy to receive those books. Those books definitely will be put to good use."
Sixth-grader Charlotte Beabeau used to volunteer for UMOM's "Read To Me" program where she would read to children in the shelters.
She stated, "Since I knew we actually couldn't read to homeless shelter kids, we could donate books instead."
She and her girl scout troop went to the community for help gathering books that the kids at the shelter could read.
Beabeau said, "Another thing we did is some of us made posters and walked around our neighborhood and left a drop off box at the front of our house, our front door and people could drop it off that way."
The project took two months.
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