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Volunteers Needed for a Drive-up Book Giveaway
On December 18, 2021, MELP is partnering with The Mind of Christ Church in East St. Louis, Illinois to give away food, toys, and books. We will be right alongside them giving away thousands of books. We want every family to receive a bag of 25 books. But we need your help to make this happen.
We need volunteers for the following tasks:
☑ Sort the books into various categories.
☑ Put branded MELP stickers on every book.
☑ Bag up 25 randomly selected books. Our goal is 500 bags. That’s 12,500 books. Yikes!
☑ On Friday, December 17, load 500 book bags on a U-Haul truck and drive them to the book drive location at the Bi-State bus garage at 807 N 47th St, East St Louis, IL 62205
☑ Give out the book bags on Saturday, December 18, arriving by 6 a.m.
☑ Serve on the Encouragement Team. These volunteers will connect with families at regular intervals to encourage them in their literacy journey.
Sign up here to volunteer. Or contact Linda Mitchell at linda.mitchell@metroeastliteracyproject.org, (618) 558-8527. If you are not able to volunteer, we would be thrilled to receive a donation for this project. Donate here. Thank you!
Join the Encouragement Team!
Encouragement Team volunteers followup with families after they have received a bag of books. They make contact at regular intervals to encourage families in their literacy journey. You have a unique opportunity to play an important role in helping a family create a culture of reading for family transformation. Retired teachers, literacy advocates, authors, reading specialists, parents, and librarians should consider signing up.
Donate Books
For some families, having books in the home is easier said than done. That's why the Metro East Literacy Project (MELP) is gearing up for our book flood events by collecting books from you. Your homes are a treasure trove of books. You may have books sitting on your shelves collecting dust. Your books can be a huge blessing to another family that does not have access to books.
Our book flood events will be an antidote to book deserts. Our first priority is to collect adult books in the following categories: textbooks, novels, coffee table books, reference books, travel books, cookbooks, gardening, fashion, lifestyle, health, history, etc. We are looking for beautiful books with lots of images. We won't turn down children's picture books, but non-children's books are the priority. If you would like to donate your gently used books to MELP, please contact me at lmitchell50@gmail.com.
Also, please sign up to volunteer to help distribute the books at our giveaway events.
Thank you so much.
Our book flood events will be an antidote to book deserts. Our first priority is to collect adult books in the following categories: textbooks, novels, coffee table books, reference books, travel books, cookbooks, gardening, fashion, lifestyle, health, history, etc. We are looking for beautiful books with lots of images. We won't turn down children's picture books, but non-children's books are the priority. If you would like to donate your gently used books to MELP, please contact me at lmitchell50@gmail.com.
Also, please sign up to volunteer to help distribute the books at our giveaway events.
Thank you so much.
The Metro East Literacy Project does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.