Kids to Kids Partners With St. Jude's Ranch for Children To Give Youths the Gift of Reading

February 20, 2007 - Kids to Kids is helping expand hopes and futures by providing the foster children of Boulder City's St. Jude's Ranch for Children with libraries of books housed in each of the facility's cottages.

An added gift of one special book was given to each of these young people to be treasured as their very own. This promises to be the beginning of a long and positive partnership between Kids to Kids and St. Jude's Ranch for Children, as additional books will be added to continually develop these "keep-at-home" libraries.

St. Jude's Ranch for Children rescues abused, abandoned and neglected children and young people from the devastating cycle of child abuse. They provide healing and nurturing in a safe, home-like environment where children learn life skills to start new lives with new choices and new hope.

Kids to Kids believes in these same inspirations—the power and magic of books as the mechanisms for dreams, hope, and opportunity. Kids to Kids is proud to establish this legacy of literacy with St. Jude's Ranch for Children.

Christine Spadafor-Clay, the CEO of St. Jude's Ranch for Children comments, "Literacy opens doors to the future through which most of the young people we serve would rarely have the opportunity to enter. The books provided by Kids to Kids are important tools to be used in reading fluency and long range school success. We are excited about this partnership because with the help of Kids to Kids, we will work together to shape lives, one book at a time."

Find out more about St. Jude's Ranch for Children.

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