My Nonprofit Reviews

I started reading with elementary school students when I retired from full time work. Everybody Wins Vermont was already a well-established and much respected program matching adults with elementary school kids for an hour of reading, playing games, and just chatting during the students' lunch period or recess. I've done this with two students--two years with each. It has been a great pleasure and privilege to get to know these kids. They sign up because they want to, like being read to and like reading aloud to an adult, choosing the books to share, or doing some other activity that they choose. It's a joy to meet the kids; I think they are are or learn to feel comfortable and at ease with adults who are neither their teachers nor their family members, and vice versa.