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Women's Initiative delivers the goods

Recently, the Women's Initiative received a generous donation of 600 new soft-covered books from the Detroit Media Partnership, comprised of The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press.

This delightful selection of books, geared for ages 7-12, included many award winners. While the focus of our Early Childhood Literacy Initiative is improving literacy among children 0-3 so that they are ready to enter school prepared to learn, the chance to help older children is appealing. Securing books for these age levels provides our initiative an opportunity to include older siblings as part of the literacy process and supply “role modeling” for their younger brothers and sisters.

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