A teacher gives life skills classes to disadvantaged young people. A teacher in Charleston, South Carolina is teaching some little men, some big life lessons. Every Wednesday nearly 60 elementary school students dress in their Sunday’s best for the Gentleman’s Club. Raymond Nelson works with at-risk children at Memminger Elementary and thought of the idea over…
A girl wants to help kids discover books they can relate you Eleven-year-old Marley Dias told her mom she was “sick of reading books about white boys and dogs.” The sixth-grader from New Jersey loves to read, but she has a hard time relating to the characters in the required books she reads in school…
A former drug addict to become a street librarian Meet Philani Dladla, a.k.a. the Pavement Bookworm. He’s 24 and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa, and his story is quite incredible. As a child growing up in KwaZulu Natal he had always loved books. But after moving to Johannesburg to find work, he started taking drugs.…