We know reading feeds the imagination, curiosity and knowledge. But did you know that your Summer Reading is helping feed others around the world?
This year, through Heifer International's Read to Feed Initiative your Summer Reading will help support access to fruit and vegetable seeds for home gardens, clean water for health and sanitation, flocks of chickens that can provide hundreds of eggs each year, and even honeybees that help pollinate future harvests.
Here's how it works!
- For every 2,000 minutes read by Summer Reading participants of all ages, Heifer International's sponsors donate $20 to the organization's work around the world.
- Funds donated are from corporate sponsors which partner with Heifer International. No local library funds are used.
- Books logged into Beanstack, either by participants or library staff, are automatically converted to minutes for the Heifer International program. Log your reading as you normally do, Beanstack will do the rest!
- All Summer Reading participants can continue to log their reading even after they have earned their t-shirt, either through the Beanstack app, or on a paper log. For those tracking on paper, simply bring your log into the library and we'll be happy to log your reading.
- Reading logged between June 1 and July 31 counts toward the Heifer International donation.
As of June 28, AAPLD Summer Reading participants have completed 1,518,601 minutes of reading which equals a donation of $15,186.
Check out our Heifer International Progress Trackers at both Harnish and Eastgate and help AAPLD meet our donation goal of $25,000. Watch our contribution grow as together, we plant a seed to read, and feed!