Bring Light: Let's Read! / !Vamos a Leer!

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Let's Read! / !Vamos a Leer!

Grail Family Services

Let's Read! / ¡Vamos a Leer! is GFS' annual community event to promote awareness of the importance of early literacy and parent involvement in East San José. Each September 150-200 parents and their children ages three to eight participate in literacy activities and receive a free book.

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Grail Family Services

Grail Family Services (GFS) fosters learning and the empowerment of vulnerable families with young children through the delivery of programs that educate, develop leadership skills, and build a sense of community.

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Charity Info

Based in: San Jose, California

Year founded: 1995

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GFS believes that celebrating families and traditions is an important way of empowering the families we serve. Therefore, each year GFS holds an annual community outreach event. Let's Read! / ¡Vamos a Leer! is designed to promote community awareness of the importance of early literacy and parent involvement.

Each September, the event reaches 150-200 East San José parents and their children ages three to eight. During the event, families participate in literacy activities and are given free books to take home (often their first book) so that they can continue to enjoy reading and strengthen their literacy skills.

Let's Read! / ¡Vamos a Leer! is a part of GFS' East San José Reads early literacy initiative that includes Read-2-Me for pre-schoolers, the BEST after-school literacy program for 1st-3rd graders, and the Severns Children's Library.

"Coming to the [Let's Read! / ¡Vamos a Leer!] event taught me how important it is to read to my [infant] daughter. We read to her regularly using the only three books we own, which are the ones we got at the event."
- Veronica, Let's Read! / Vamos a Leer! participant