Two teenage girls work on Books With No Bounds to send NAN First Nation schools books and supplies
After listening to a CBC radio interview with two teenagers from Oakville, KO Education Advisor, Gloria Hendrick-Laliberte contacted them to find out more about their initiative called Books with No Bounds.
After a few emails and phone calls, a request for books for the KO communities with schools was made.
The girls made sure that they had shipments of books for the KO schools. Since that time they have sent books, resources, and craft supplies to the schools.
Below you will find an overview of the Books With No Bounds program these teens started. In appreciation for their hard work, KO Education purchased moccasins for the girls and they absolutely love them (see the picture below)! They even asked their mom if they could wear them all the time, even outside! Grand Chief Harvey Yesno of NAN presented these two special girls with the mitts in the picture.
ABOUT BOOKS WITH NO BOUNDS
Julie and Emma Mogus are TEEN SISTERS on a MISSION to bring books and improve reading and literacy skills among Aboriginal youth in the Nishnawbe Aski Nation.
They have been sorting, recording and boxing thousands and thousands of like new/new books for Aboriginal children and youth of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation communities (NAN) in Northern Ontario. There are 49 communities in NAN, some of which are only accessible by plane. Their dream is to bring an ENORMOUS supply of books to fellow brothers and sisters to the north so that they may give them the tools to improve literacy and foster that same love of reading the girls have. In 2012 , they sent over 10, 000 books to the fly-in communties of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, including KO communities. They have sent supplies, like warm clothing, baby items, crafts and teacher resources to many of the 49 communities up north.
Honorable Jame Bartleman once said, “My ticket out of a life of poverty was reading. It opened up a world of imagination and new possibilities.” He stated, “With reading, I began to do well in school. I was prepared to take advantage of opportunities as I went along.”
Emma and Julie want to share these gifts so that the children and teens of these communities will have the same opportunities as they have.