How would you feel if you grew up unable to enjoy a bed time story? In Kansas City's lowest income neighborhoods, research estimates only one book is owned, in the home, per 300 children. Reach Out and Read Kansas City is doing all we can to bridge this gap so that all children in the Kansas City area have a book to call their own.
Each year, Reach Out and Read Kansas City provides over 72,000 new, culturally and developmentally appropriate books to more than 28,000 low income children, birth to age 5, during well-child visits at our partner clinic sites, building a 13-book library for each child before he or she enters kindergarten.
Reach Out and Read Kansas City is a nonprofit program in partnership with the Kansas University Endowment at the University of Kansas Medical Center and a member of the national Reach Out and Read Program.
(from ReachOutAndReadKC.org)
(from ReachOutAndReadKC.org)
Below is a selection of images from their Annual Report for the fiscal year 2013.
