A Few More Books to Go on the DW Holiday Book Drive

Yesterday morning we kicked off our seventh annual DW holiday book drive — our most ambitious one yet with over 370 books requested, plus additional classroom supplies and products. With over 320 books + supplies purchased (over $3300 worth!), we’re closing in on our goal of fulfilling all of the teachers’ registries but need your help with the final push. If you’ve participated in past drives, you may have received thank you cards from students and/or teachers. Here’s a thank you note a participating teacher sent me last year:

“We had our high school holiday party this afternoon. The kids were all so thankful and appreciative of the gifts. Thank you for helping us give these students a good Christmas. Most of the kids opened the books right away. It was SO exciting to see kids who do not consider themselves readers flipping through the books. One of the best parts of the party was a bittersweet moment when one girl told me that she was going to wait until Christmas to open her book because she didn’t think she’d have any other presents.

What a great way for a community of caring people to come together and really brighten the day and the holiday of some very special kids.

Thank you so much for helping the Mountain Valley teachers brighten our students’ holiday. We wouldn’t be able to afford to buy all of these students a book, but we love that we were able to help these kids have a Christmas. With only 35 – 40 students, we become very attached to each of them. It is hard for us to send them off for two weeks when we worry about them. It feels much better to know that they had a special reminder of how much we care for them as well as a book to occupy their time over the break.

Thank you again.”

These are the registries that have yet to be 100% fulfilled (you can read more about the participating teachers and their students here):

Here’s Kim’s book registry.

Here’s Ali’s book registry.

Here’s Cathy’s book registry.

Thank you so, so much! I’m always extremely heartened by the generosity of this community!!