Welcome to Share Literacy
Mission and goals:
Our mission is to address and reduce the growing literacy gap between rich privileged and poor at risk children and their families. Share Literacy promotes the development of reading and thinking skills by partnering with established early childhood education agencies serving poverty-level and low-income families, with after-school programs and with organizations providing ESL and adult literacy instruction. Program goals:
Hoopoe Books Program Launch
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Winter 2008: Children in Mexico receiving kits from Fundación CIE which included Hoopoe Spanish-language books. Hoopoe Books was able to provide these books at cost to this philanthropic organization which provides educational material to families and children in need. |
Books for Afghanistan Project: Repatriation of
Traditional Teaching-Stories to Aid Literacy
In 2007, we re-applied to the Ministry of Education in Kabul, as per their instructions, and obtained current approval to continue with our project of repatriating Hoopoe traditional Teaching-Stories to Afghanistan. Collected and written for children by Afghan writer and scholar Idries Shah, these stories occupy a permanent place in the region's cultural traditions.
NATO-ISAF has now printed 250,000 copies of The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water by Idries Shah and will distribute them to Afghan school children.
This commemorates the 800th anniversary of the Afghan poet and thinker Jalalludin Rumi, who first documented this story.
Through NATO-ISAF we are now in direct correspondence with the Kabuli printer and have received sample copies of this first Dari-Pashto Hoopoe title, assuring us of the quality of their work.
We continue to raise funds to print the first of the other Dari-Pashto bilingual editions of Hoopoe Books, five of which are now ready to print.
We are actively seeking a well-established NGO with a presence both here and in Afghanistan to partner with us to arrange for in-country administration and distribution to the school children of Afghanistan.
Matching-Gift
Again this year, we can double the value of your donation! ISHK has received a generous opportunity to match a gift-grant of $300,000 with donations in 2008. This grant has been given to us by The Will J. Reid Foundation. This means that your donations this year will be worth twice as much. To donate via our secure web-donation device, click here.
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To join a volunteer Share Literacy Chapter in your area,
or to start one of your own click here.
Right, Share Literacy volunteer, Dan Sperling, talking to a shopper looking for alternative gifts at the Takoma Park, MD, Alternative Gift Fair put on by www.aggw.org. Click here for Share Literacy Alternative Gifts. |
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Recently a guest reader shared the story, The Old Woman and The Eagle with a group of incarcerated students. Some had never heard a story read aloud, and most had never commented on what had been heard. Both “firsts” occurred with this story and what a extraordinary event in our court school library to hear at-risk learners brimming with enthusiasm and rich comments about a story from the other side of the world. The Old Woman and The Eagle resonated deeply with their own lives and speaking up with their thoughtful reflections allowed each of them to stand tall and touch that magic of human dignity that is deserved by all. A heartfelt thanks for bringing such depth to juvenile hall!
Jane Guttman
Library Media Teacher
Juvenile Court Schools
Central Juvenile Hall
San Berdardino CA
Since its beginning in 2000, Hoopoe Share Literacy has partnered with established literacy programs to provide books to more than 135,000 children in the US. See partner program for more information.
Jessica Nájera, playing the part of the butterfly in The
Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water, tells Share the Lion, played by Walter Requeno, that
the scary face in the water is his own reflection.
—Photo courtesy El Tiempo Latino taken at Rosemount Center, Washington, DC.
The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water teaches
the children higher-level vocabulary. Rosemount Center uses the book to teach
children to read and recognize words in both English and Spanish.
—Photo courtesy The Afro-American Newspaper