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Vistas: Geri Stengel’s Blog: Reading program
The Power of One
by Geri Stengel on Feb 17, 2011 - 12:11am
After he retired, Burt Freeman set up a nonprofit program that he envisioned as a personal project in which he'd do all the work, "Something to keep me out of the pool halls."
In this last school year, the 11-year-old program gave 4,400 children the opportunity to choose and own books – in most cases, for the first time in their lives. Freeman hasn't counted how many children have been served overall.
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