Millsap Elementary School's Christine Hopkins completed the project, which resembles a vintage schoolhouse.[/caption]
About half of Cy-Fair ISD students are categorized as economically disadvantaged, and nonprofits such as
Cy-Hope work to provide resources for their success.
Local resident Shih-Ting Huang has launched an
online fundraiser to help provide Cy-Hope with new books and help a new CFISD teacher start his or her classroom library.
Usborne Books & More will match 50 percent of donations up to $1,000, and Huang’s goal is to raise $1,500 by Aug. 25. Books are needed to stock libraries at the organization’s three Hope Centers, on their mobile STEM bus and in the counseling center’s waiting room, she said.
Little Free Library sites are popping up across Cy-Fair as well. The nonprofit organization encourages literacy by creating neighborhood book exchanges with a take-a-book, leave-a-book concept.
There are more than 50,000 registered libraries across the world, and Millsap Elementary School teacher Christine Hopkins opened a Little Free Library in her neighborhood last month.
“Kids don’t read during the summers, but if they have books or if they walk by and they see that there’s free books, then they might actually read,” Hopkins said. “So I’m starting something and I like that because our community needs more of this.”
More than a dozen Little Free Libraries are scattered throughout Cy-Fair:
Millsap Elementary School's Christine Hopkins completed the project, which resembles a vintage schoolhouse.[/caption]
About half of Cy-Fair ISD students are categorized as economically disadvantaged, and nonprofits such as Cy-Hope work to provide resources for their success.
Local resident Shih-Ting Huang has launched an online fundraiser to help provide Cy-Hope with new books and help a new CFISD teacher start his or her classroom library.
Usborne Books & More will match 50 percent of donations up to $1,000, and Huang’s goal is to raise $1,500 by Aug. 25. Books are needed to stock libraries at the organization’s three Hope Centers, on their mobile STEM bus and in the counseling center’s waiting room, she said.
Little Free Library sites are popping up across Cy-Fair as well. The nonprofit organization encourages literacy by creating neighborhood book exchanges with a take-a-book, leave-a-book concept.
There are more than 50,000 registered libraries across the world, and Millsap Elementary School teacher Christine Hopkins opened a Little Free Library in her neighborhood last month.
“Kids don’t read during the summers, but if they have books or if they walk by and they see that there’s free books, then they might actually read,” Hopkins said. “So I’m starting something and I like that because our community needs more of this.”
More than a dozen Little Free Libraries are scattered throughout Cy-Fair:
