Monday, May 9, 2011

Awareness and Aid

Last month the Book List was for Autism Acceptance and I wish this event was happening then.  On May 12 at 7:30 pm Wretches and Jabbers will be shown in 100 cities across the United States.  The movie is about two men with autism, who were excluded from public schools as children, who travel the world and meet other people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  Here's the web page with city listings.

The PepsiRefresh Project gave a grant to a gentleman who is using it to provide books to public schools in Chicago.  People can vote for the PepsiRefresh Projects they like and the more votes the projects get the larger their grant funding.  You can vote for this project here.

A friend of mine, Elizabeth Handel, runs a literacy program for inmates and their children in Massachusetts.  It's called A Book from Mom/ABook from Dad and was started in 2004.  They take donations of used books to prisions for parents to give to their children when they visit.  If parents can't meet with their children some prisions allow them to record themselves reading the book and then send the book and recording to their child.  It's very local with Handel sorting and delivering most of the books herself, some information about the program is available here.  Sadly A Book from Mom/A Book from Dad is not set up for internet donations.  But if you're in MA look out for bookstores and schools who work with this organization and donate through them

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