Local non-profit helps avoid the “Summer Slide”

PITTSBURG, Ks. — An area non-profit is trying to assist kids’s literacy over the summer season.
The Pittsburg Household YMCA was remodeled into the “Learn, White and Blue” kids’s e book truthful this morning.
This was due to a partnership between the YMCA, Craw-Kan and the United Manner of Southwest Missouri and Southeast Kansas.

Books have been out there for youngsters as much as the third grade, all totally free.

The truthful was designed to assist keep away from the training loss kids expertise in the course of the summer season months, also called the “summer season slide.”

“Learn, White and Blue Youngsters’s E-book truthful is basically an extension of one other literacy initiative that now we have known as the ‘Little Blue Bookshelf Undertaking,’ the place the concept is that now we have bookshelves out in the neighborhood the place kids normally are, and the concept is that youngsters can simply go as much as the bookshelf and take a free e book, so we needed to get books in kids’s fingers,” says Bob Burke, United Manner of Southwest Missouri & Southeast Kansas.

All of the books on the e book truthful and the Little Blue Bookshelf have been donated by members all through the group.

For a listing of Little Blue Bookshelf places you need to use this hyperlink.