Health & Fitness
Children’s Book Drive at Woodlands Academy through March 19
In addition to Lent, this year’s Ash Wednesday service at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart marked the start of the all-girls high school’s commitment to help a local nonprofit provide books to area children who need them.
The general public is invited to help the Woodlands community achieve its goal of collecting 3,000 books for Bernie’s Book Bank which will distribute them to children ranging in age from infants to 6th grade students. New and gently used books of all types except textbooks, workbooks or reference books may be dropped off at the school, 760 East Westleigh Road in Lake Forest, from now through March 19.
Bernie's Book Bank facilitates the collection, processing and redistribution of new and gently used children's books to significantly increase book ownership among at-risk children throughout Chicagoland. Director of Marketing Jill Rosenberg told those assembled for the Ash Wednesday service, “We know that success in life is based on who and what you know. Reading transforms lives. Two out of three children living in poverty in the United States have no books. This isn’t just in inner cities like Chicago. It’s in Highwood, Zion, Waukegan and North Chicago, to name a few nearby communities.”
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Bernie’s Book Bank provides 12 books to each of the 80,000 children it serves. The books are theirs to keep at home forever. There is a processing center in Lake Forest, and Rosenberg invited the Woodlands students to visit and help sort and put stickers on books that will be donated to children in need.
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Founded in 1858, Woodlands Academy is an independent Catholic college preparatory day and boarding high school for young women, and part of a worldwide network of Sacred Heart Schools that spans 19 cities in the United States and 44 countries around the world. A nonprofit, Woodlands Academy’s identity is rooted in Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat’s desire to inspire young hearts and minds to excel, to lead lives of integrity and to serve. For more information about Woodlands Academy, please visit www.woodlandsacademy.org
