Volunteer: Help Refurbish an Under-Resourced School Library - Mural Tracing
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
We provide books to low-income schools where approximately 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Most students at the schools we serve are children of color and children of immigrants. Our organization provides brand new, hardcover, high quality books to school libraries and gently used books to teachers for classroom libraries, as well as improving the library space by painting colorful, reading-based murals and providing new comfortable reading furniture.
We complete 2-3 library renovation projects each academic year, each taking place on a Saturday from 9am - 2pm. Volunteers from partner community service organizations collect the gently used books to be donated and provide volunteers for the project day.
We serve school around the bay area, although most of our work to date has been concentrated in the south bay and peninsula areas. We have renovated nine elementary and middle school libraries in high poverty areas to date, and have applications pending for four more, one of which will be renovated this spring.
Since our founding in 2016, we have provided over 5000 new books, and 15,000 used books to schools. We have served nearly 4000 students and their families, have worked with more than a dozen different service organizations, and have had almost 400 volunteers work on our projects.
We are looking for volunteers to help us improve the library at an underserved school, helping to make it into a more inviting and welcoming place where students want to spend time and read.
We are looking for 6 volunteers to help us to trace projected murals on to the wall to prepare for mural painting that will be done on another day. Volunteers will need to work on ladders and/or scaffolding.
This is best for adults and teens age 15 and up.
Follow the link below for more information and to sign up
https //www.accessbooksbayarea.org/events/tracing-day-volunteer-at-stonegate-elementary-and-help-us-trace-murals
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