介绍:
Books have great power. Between their pages, readers can be transported to anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone or anything. Unfortunately, not every child in the world has books to read.
For several years, Maria Keller, a 14-year-old girl from the US, has been trying to change that fact. When she was eight years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that some of her classmates didn’t read as much as she did. When she asked her mother the reason for that, her mother said that they might not be able to afford books. Maria had never thought of that. She could not believe that some children might not have bedtime stories read to them. She became determined to change this.
With her mother’s help, Maria created Read Indeed. Read Indeed is a non-profit organization dedicated to collecting and distributing books to children in need. At first, Maria set the goal to collect a million books by the time she is 18. It didn’t take long to reach that goal!
Today, at the age of 14, she has collected over 1.8 million books and has shipped them to many states and countries around the world. She said, “I can’t live without books. As I continue my mission, I have learned that the number of kids who have no books is in hundreds of millions. So I just can’t give up, even after reaching my original goal of a million books distributed.”
She recently set a new goal: to distribute donations to kids in need in every state in the United States, and every country in the world. She wants to make the world a better place — one book at a time.
Would you like to join Maria in helping kids in your community or around the world to have books to read?
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