Join GMA's Book Drive America
-- Our "Book Drive America" has enjoyed great success thanks to all those who have dedicated books and money to this charity.
During our last update on Good Morning America's book drive, weather forecaster Tony Perkins visited the Sovereign Bank in Philadelphia. The bank is sponsoring the Philadelphia phase of the Book Drive America book drive by helping 15,000 new books.
Anyone who lives in, or plans to visit, Philadelphia, should also feel free to get in on the book drive by donating new or gently used books.
Good Morning America is calling the Philadelphia phase of the drive it's "Help a Student Make the Grade" project because GMA is focusing on getting books to kids ages five to twelve.
Donated books will go to Philadelphia Reads (www.phila.gov/philareads) a program that works with individuals, schools, community and faith-based organizations and businesses to provide mentors, resources and advocacy education-based programs. Philadelphia Reads helps to strengthen the literacy skills of Philadelphia's children.
During our previous update on Good Morning America's book drive, Marysol Castro, the new weather and feature correspondent on GMA's weekend edition, stopped by the Children's Memorial Pediatric Uptown Clinic in Chicago where children received hundreds and hundreds of books through "Book Drive America."
With assistance from Chicago's Harlem Furniture, WLS-TV, Reach Out and Read, and Literacy Chicago, 22,806 donated books and 15, 970 new books were collected in Chicago over the summer.
The books were distributed among 88 different children's programs. The new books will go to early education programs in Chicago. The donated books are going to 75 health clinics around the city through a national program called Reach Out and Read, which works with doctors to deliver books to low-income children. For a full list of health clinics and hospitals in Chicago that take part in Reach Out and Read of Greater Chicago, go to http://www.rorchicago.org/locations.html.
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