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» Monday, October 29, 2007
Posted by Jack Hanlon, Northeast Regional Director
The following is an official release from the NCFL in regards to our visit to the Santa Rosa school this summer:
In
August, a team of eight Better World Books staff, along with NCFL Senior
Director Emily Kirkpatrick, Development Specialist Andrea Peters, and
Training Specialist Kim Jacobs, helped the Santa Rosa Family and Child Education (FACE) program get ready to welcome students for the new school year.
The FACE program, sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Education,
offers educational services to American Indians on 39 reservations. Santa Rosa serves families on the Tohono O'odham
Reservation in Arizona.
NCFL has provided training and technical assistance to the FACE program
since its inception in 1991.Better World Books was already familiar with the FACE program
after donating thousands of books to all the sites last year. Many programs
used those books for incentives, prizes, gifts, and to build classroom and
school libraries.
This summer, Better World Books staff were ready to get their
hands dirty—literally. They helped prepare the Santa Rosa dorm for students, mowed and
raked, cleaned graffiti off playground equipment, set up computers, and
distributed additional donated books. They also had an opportunity to
observe the opening days of the program.“In addition to being able to really get to see and
understand the FACE program in action and better appreciate NCFL's role in
helping to architect the program, we all had the chance to pitch in and
help get the Santa Rosa School itself "in shape" for the opening day
of school,” said Better World Books CEO David Murphy. “We were
humbled by the experience.”
FACE staff were appreciative of everyone’s efforts.
“Without the help of this team,” said Sister Val Beuke, the
Santa Rosa FACE coordinator, “our room would never have been so
perfectly ready for the little ones.”
Read
more about the NCFL-Better World Books partnership.