Read this newspaper. Read an income-tax form. Read a cereal box.
Now were possible. That's life for three million Canadians who imagine your world if none of those things struggle to read even simple things.
Wednesday is the day to lend them a hand. It's Raise-a-Reader day in Victoria and across Canada. More than 150 volunteers from the Times Colonist, the University of Victoria, the Victoria Royals and other community groups will be out in their lime green T-shirts from 7: 30 a.m. to 9 a.m., offering you a Times Colonist in exchange for a donation to literacy programs.
They will be on downtown street corners and at Peninsula Co-op locations at Millstream, Pat Bay Highway, Keating Cross Road and Royal Oak.
Since it began in 2002, Raise-a-Reader has raised more than $20 million across the country. In Victoria, money raised by Raise-a-Reader and the Times Colonist Book Drive provided $350,000 for literacy projects last year.
Every penny donated goes to schools and literacy organizations on Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands.
Think of everything that reading has given you in life, and help spread the joy of words.
