Elizabeth Ochoa, store manager at Teays Valley Starbucks, has nominated Read Aloud WV for the Starbucks Neighborhood Grant for the past two years. Each year we’ve been awarded $1,000. Elizabeth told us her personal Read Aloud WV experience that led her to champion our cause:
“I grew up in rural WV and, as a child, reading was the only way I could explore the world outside of my community. Reading is the best way for the children of WV to explore and learn and imagine things that they’d otherwise not experience,” Elizabeth said.
”Read Aloud WV strives to foster a love of reading from birth, to motivate a want to read. My youngest child benefited from this program. They partner with CAMC Women and Children’s hospital to donate books to babies born there, including my baby.”
| Thanks to Elizabeth and Starbucks, hundreds of WV schoolchildren will take home new books to keep this year. We appreciate you and everything you do for our state’s young readers! |