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Goodwill-Suncoast BookWorks Program


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The BookWorks program help to instill a love of reading in children to prepare them for tomorrow's workforce. This helps support Goodwill-Suncoast's mission of helping people achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of work.

Within the last couple months, Goodwill-Suncoast has opened a new location in the Oxford/Wildwood Area and in doing so extending the BookWorks program to Sumter County. Goodwill’s BookWorks program is designed to instill a love of books and reading and to encourage self-sufficiency.

BookWorks brings together volunteer readers and children from low-income households to promote childhood literacy. Volunteers read to preschool children at Head Start centers and other locations and then present each child with a book of their own to take home. BookWorks also provides books to elementary classroom, Kindergarten to 2nd grade, in order to continue to help children with their school readiness.

The BookWorks program help to instill a love of reading in children to prepare them for tomorrow's workforce. This helps support Goodwill-Suncoast's mission of helping people achieve their full potential through the dignity and power of…

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  • 11954 CR 105, Wildwood, FL None, United States
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