Posts Tagged ‘Navajo Nation’
Progress Report
Rotarians worked with two “grassroots” Navajo nonprofits, Read at Home and Chinle Planting Hope, to support lifelong literacy and community development.
Read MoreA Future with Books
A number of Rotary Chapters in Colorado are working together to support grass-root efforts to bring books and children’s high quality magazines to kids on a regular basis through subscriptions and a Bookmobile.
Read MoreChinle Planting Hope and Read at Home
One child + learning to read + books + magazines to read = a future With the collaboration and help of many volunteers and a number of Rotary Clubs in…
Read MoreChinle Planting Hope Mural
Adrian Thompson (Navajo) and volunteers are adding a 9 foot by 80 foot mural to the Thrift Store Wall, part of the Chinle Planting Hope and Read at Home projects in Chinle, Arizona. What’s this project all about?
Read MoreRead at Home: a New School Year
Approximately 450 subscriptions of Highlights’ High Five children’s “learning and literacy” magazine will begin arriving at schools on a variety of tribal nations.
Read MoreMemorial Day 2022
This weekend the sacrifices made by our soldiers and veterans are especially real and poignant as we realize the terror and destruction of war happening in Ukraine.
Read MoreChinle Planting Hope
Imagine this. During the pandemic your schools have been closed for over a year. The nearest public library is over 70 miles away. There are no bookstores.
Read MoreLaughter, Sacred and Healing
During this season of giving, I wish to give thanks and to honor Rose Tahe, friend and co-author of First Laugh, Welcome Baby.
Read MoreRead at Home, Inc.
We both have observed again and again that children who have difficulty with reading have difficulty with school. The love of reading—and the skills needed for reading—begins at home when a child snuggles next to Mom, Dad, Grandma or an older sibling with a book or a magazine.
Read MoreBarrel-racing daydream gave birth to Cowboy Up! poetry
I was standing next to the fence watching a young girl riding her horse barrel-racing, speeding around the arena, kicking up dirt and smiling from ear to ear. I thought,…
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