Kids helping kids: Tilden School students’ book donations

By Tilden School’s 5th-grade class
Reporting for West Seattle Blog

Last fall, Tilden‘s fourth and fifth grade students read books for a Scholastic Books contest in which Scholastic would donate 100 books to a community in need for each class that read 100 books. Both classes did, so Scholastic donated 100 books each to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, and Laguna Pueblo in Cibola County, NM!

This made us eligible to enter another Scholastic contest, the Care Where You Are Sweepstakes, to win 500 books that we could donate to a local organization. Our 5th grade class is one of 200 winners out of 16,000 entries.

After researching local nonprofit organizations, we found out about the foster kids at Treehouse (treehouse4kids.org), and decided this was the right place for the 500 books. Our class thought Treehouse could use some of the books for tutoring foster children, and put some of the books in its Wearhouse for the foster kids to choose and take home.

It makes us feel really good to be able to help foster children, and donate books that they could read and use to learn. The books we’re donating include 100 preschool and Kindergarten books, 100 Kindergarten and 1st grade books, 100 2nd and 3rd grade books, 100 4th through 6th grade books, and 100 books for grades 7 and up. We hope that Treehouse foster kids enjoy using these books!

Keith February 27, 2009 (8:26 am)

Great job Team Tilden!

Irukandji February 27, 2009 (2:06 pm)

Excellent reading and a great gift to others. Congratulations on a very meaningful win.

NB February 27, 2009 (5:40 pm)

Wow! Whitney must be so proud of the hard work all those kids put in! Great Job!

Karin Beck February 28, 2009 (11:23 am)

I want to thank Scholastic Books for providing this opportunity. This experience was hugely rewarding for my students, and they now have a better understanding of the plight of foster kids in our nation. In addition, our school has begun a relationship with Treehouse, and plans to support Treehouse in the future.

Clyde B Muropa March 21, 2009 (8:18 pm)

Dear

I hereby apply for used or new book donations for St. Igantius Secondary School in Lethem, Guyana, South America. The school is run by local indegenous community people, the Amerindians and has a total of 550 students between the ages of 11 and 17. The books that are in schort supply include Information Technology, Chemistry, Physics, Intergrated Science, Food and Nutrition, and aboce all English reading books. For English, reading books in the form of novels, grammar books and story books would be most appreciated.

I am a Catholic Jesuit priest doing voluntary teaching in the school and feel the great need for additional books would aid the effort by the teachers, the local community and the government in promoting an integral development of the underpriviled local children.

I can be reached at the following physical address.

St. Igantius Mission
P. O Lethemm Rupununi #9
Guyana, South America
Phone +592 6681979

Yours faithfully

Clyde B. Muropa SJ

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