November 2008

National Family Volunteer Day Bookcase Build at Even Start, RampART and NOLA Bookfair outreach

November was jammed pack with events including two outreach events at the RampArt Festival and  the NOLA Bookfair where members helped recruit students and volunteers for the YMCA's Educational Services YES! program. While in attendance at these community event members also tried to raise awareness about how low levels of literacy challenge the Greater New Orleans area. Members also had the opportunity to participate in National Family Volunteer Day in an event organized at the Even Start Family Literacy program. Volunteers ranging from the Even Start families and staff to AmeriCorps and VISTA members from programs across the city and other joined LACNOLA member to build bookcases for the families who attend Even Start. The hope was to bring literacy into the home with these bookcases, which were later decorated during Parent and Child Time. The bookcases were then filled with books that volunteers help to organize and that were donated to the families by Even Start.