Sort Books for Reach Out & Read (Must lift 40lbs)

Help our friends at Reach Out & Read box & sort just over 24,000 books this SATURDAY, MARCH 25th from 10 am - Noon.

Volunteers must lift & carry 40lbs boxes of books.

Please arrive by 9:55 am. Someone will be at the door letting volunteers in the building and taking small groups to the 3rd floor, where we are sorting books. This is a locked building so if you arrive late CALL Selena at 816-582-7857 and someone will come down to let you in.

PARKING is on Grand between 17th and 18th Street, as well as the KC Star parking lot on the south-east corner of 18th and McGee. You will enter the KC Star building at the south-west corner of the building (see MAP - Click to View (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3rTZDLyNhDAWklQTm5Td1FwVmc/view?usp=sharing))

WEAR comfortable clothing & shoes for moving boxes.

Reach Out & Read will have water and a sweet treat for all volunteers. Please sign in and out on the volunteer sheet.

Reach Out and Read Kansas City is a nonprofit program in partnership with the Kansas University Endowment at the University of Kansas Medical Center and a member of the national Reach Out and Read Program (http://reachoutandread.org/).

Each year, Reach Out and Read Kansas City (http://www.reachoutandreadkc.org/) provides approximately 76,500 new, culturally and developmentally appropriate books to almost 30,000 low income children, birth to age 5, during well-child visits at our partner clinic sites, building a 15-book library for each child before he or she enters kindergarten.