A Little Goes A Long Way To Promote Literacy
Friday is World Literacy Day, and the North Carolina Bar Foundation’s Lawyers4Literacy program needs your help raising money for 100 new books for North Carolina students. A $10 donation provides two hardback books to a participating school. A donation of any amount helps support the L4L program.
To donate, go to the NCBA website Giving page and select Lawyers4Literacy. To learn more, watch the Lawyers4Literacy video and read the account below.
By Ann David
Ann David practices with David & Associates PLLC in Wilmington.
Lawyers4Literacy, supported by the North Carolina Bar Foundation, has expanded statewide in local bar associations and law schools since its founding six years ago.
I have volunteered with L4L for six years and witnessed firsthand the bond that develops between the students and the legal professionals who come to the classroom to read to them. The students are excited to see the mentors and are more dedicated to their school work in an effort to receive the acknowledgement that volunteers shower on them. Teachers have told me that L4L has encouraged apathetic students to become more enthusiastic about school, demonstrating improvement in attendance, work product and test scores.