A Story of Literacy and Hope By Terry Chriswell
library to Allen, South Dakota for the American Horse School on the Pine Ridge Reservation. There are five more schools with empty shelves. Alyse hopes to make five more “little” trips. Literacy and Hope stands as proof that a single person can affect change in their community with just a little extra effort. Their motto -“What you can. Where you are. Every day” encourages others to take action in their own communities using personal, manageable ideas. The list is growing at LiteracyandHope.com where Alyse has started “365 Days of Literacy and Hope” ideas you might want to check out. off your unwanted books: Denise Irby, owner 1. Drop of Always Clean in Denver, is sponsoring Alyse’s efforts by offering her storefront to collect books. 4307 Tennyson St., 303-431-9808. Call ahead. Space: do you have a garage, storage unit or 2. Storage other area that could house a few hundred books? It Forward: bundle your gently-used books, 3. Pay and leave it with a friendly note for a stranger who might not otherwise have reading material. Ask them to pay it forward too.
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or 3 years now the organizer of the Golden chapter of the Pulpwood Queens book club, Alyse Urice, has been telling us about her “little project” of leaving small bundles of used books at bus stops, unemployment offices, grocery stores and other unlikely places. Her project has blossomed into a home-based, not-for-profit organization, Literacy and Hope. Locally, besides distributing bundles of “pre-loved books” to low-income folks, she has stocked empty bookshelves for a low-income apartment complex in Arvada and put authordonated books into the hands of The Homecoming Queens, a monthly book group for women in transitional housing through the Lakewood-based non-profit, STRIDE. Beyond the immediate community, Alyse and her family drove a truck filled with enough books to create a school
Gas money is needed to get school 4.Transportation: library books to the reservation schools. Authors: Do you have a published book that you 5. could give several copies to the Homecoming Queens, American Horse School and/or the donation program? and Hope will host a World Book Night 6. Literacy event for seniors in a Denver retirement village and is looking for large print books. For more information or to donate, go to Literacyandhope.com.
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