Reading Reaches & Help us Learn, Give us Hope
Afghanistan & Iraq

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Children with School SuppliesPROJECT UPDATE

We have distributed nearly 10,000 dictionaries from the Dictionary Project in Iraq,  Afghanistan and Pakistan. The attached slide shows the unit locations that they have been shipped to and a student in Iraq with one of your dictionaries. Many schools have been reached from each location so the distribution is wide. We will begin shipping to Africa this month so your dictionaries will enable an even more diverse population of children to learn and read. Please consider including this information in your newsletter. You are welcome to use any of the pictures on our website.

Thank you,

Gary

Gary L. LaGrange
Colonel, US Army Retired
4816 Lakewood Ridge
Manhattan, Kansas 66503
785-537-7493
www.helpuslearngiveushope.org

With the help of Reading Reaches, Inc and the Dictionary Project in Kansas City led by its executive director, Chris Hope, 1,008 dictionaries donated by the Dictionary Project, were sent to Help us Learn . Give us Hope Inc. Below is an email that Chris received from Gary LaGrange, US Army Retired Colonel of Help us Learn . Give us Hope Inc:

"Today I unpacked the pallet of 1008 dictionaries you arranged to be sent to Help us Learn...Give us Hope Inc. They were delivered to the Manhattan National Guard Armory last Friday. The shipping labels were applied to the boxes this morning and they should ship to Iraq this week. A million thanks on behalf of so many children there. I will also ship 96 of them to Afghanistan the following week. We are building English library sets for each school in Iraq (about 15,000) and for a number of schools in Afghanistan also. We will place one of your dictionaries in 912 Iraqi school library sets. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

For more information about Reading Reaches, you can contact:

Chris Hope, Executive Director
Reading Reaches, Inc.
Reading Reaches Kids' Minds and Kids' Hearts
Dictionary Project Kansas City
9717 Harvard Avenue Kansas City MO 64134
816-763-5205
www.ReadingReaches.org
Director@ReadingReaches.org

For more information on Help us Learn .. Give us Hope, please contact:

Gary L. LaGrange
Colonel, US Army Retired
Help us Learn...Give us Hope Inc
4816 Lakewood Ridge
Manhattan, Kansas 66503
785-537-7493
www.helpuslearngiveushope.org