Live-in for Literacy
Posted: January 22nd, 2010Katie McIntosh and Nitasha Sarin will be setting up camp in the Stauffer loggia for the fifth annual Live-in for Literacy event. From Saturday, January 23 through Saturday, January 30, they will remain in the library 24 hours a day, with only five minutes of every hour permitted for bathroom or other necessary breaks.
The students are raising funds to support the work of Room to Read, a non-profit organization that partners with local communities throughout the developing world to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating local language children’s literature, constructing schools, providing education to girls and establishing computer labs. This year’s campaign will support the construction of one library in India and the publication of 10,000 copies of a local language children’s book
Initiated at Queen’s University in 2005 by the DREAM (Discover the Reality of Educating All Minds) student association, the Live-in for Literacy event has expanded to eight university libraries across Canada and has raised $70,000 to build libraries in Nepal and India as well as a computer lab in Cambodia. Visit www.liveinforliteracy.com to learn more about the campaign.
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