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Hurricane Harvey Recovery Updates

Books Between Kids is working to assist with recovery efforts. Undoubtedly, many children and families have lost their home libraries to the floods, and we will be working to get books back into the hands of our kids. Below you will find the latest updates on our efforts to re-build home libraries and return books to our kids:
How You Can Help
The effort to recover home libraries lost to the flooding and to continue our mission of providing books for kids that, otherwise, can’t afford them, will be an ongoing effort. There are several ways you can join in on our mission and recovery efforts: Donate funds to help us provide even more books so we can re-build lost home libraries. Volunteer at our warehouse to help get books ready to go home with kids throughout the city. Or collect children’s books to donate to our program.
Update: September 2017
In September, Books Between Kids mobilized to provide 15,000 books to 5 elementary school communities that were relocated because of extensive damage to their campuses. Books were used to build temporary classroom libraries, and, once these school libraries are restored, all books supplied by Books Between Kids will go home with the kids on campus.
Update: October 2017
The next step in our Harvey recovery efforts at Books Between Kids is underway. We are communicating with our principals and conducting a needs assessment to identify which of our school communities and their families were most severely affected and how. Understanding the needs of our community is one of the most important steps in this process. Our primary focus is re-building home libraries. For kids that we have provided books for over the years and that are now left without books because of the flooding, Books Between Kids will begin working to get even more books back into those kids’ hands as quickly as possible.
Update: December 2017
After concluding our needs assessment with school principals, Books Between Kids identified several campuses where a large number of families suffered damage due to flooding. In December, Books Between Kids began its effort to distribute extra books to these families. With the help of Houston ISD and the Astros Foundation, the Astros Literacy Bus was loaded with over 4,000 free books to give away to kids at Fondwood Early Childhood Center and Scroggins Elementary School. The Literacy Bus allowed for Books Between Kids to bring a “pop-up book celebration” to these campuses where kids were able to select 3 books each before the winter break. In May, more books will return to these campuses for their usual end-of-the-year Books Between Kids Book Celebrations.
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This school year was one for the books! We hosted This school year was one for the books! We hosted 56 Book Celebrations in HISD elementary schools and early childhood centers! 

Over 29,000 HISD students had the opportunity to choose 6 books each to take home and keep! Thank you to each of our school coordinators who help make these Book Celebrations possible!
We are so proud to have been selected for #TheStar We are so proud to have been selected for #TheStarbucksFoundation #NeighborhoodGrants. Thank you to the Starbucks partners (employees) in our community!
This week, eight schools hosted their BBK Book Cel This week, eight schools hosted their BBK Book Celebration just in time for summer vacation! Over 4,900 kids were able to choose six books each to take home and keep! That’s a total of 32,560 books!!🎉🎉
Our Breakfast Bingo was a huge success! We are so Our Breakfast Bingo was a huge success! We are so grateful to each of you who attended, donated and played for the kids!

We can’t wait to see all of the kids who will become book owners thanks to your support and we’re looking forward to 10 more years of filling bookshelves in Houston!
We can’t wait to see you tomorrow morning at Bre We can’t wait to see you tomorrow morning at Breakfast Bingo! We have more than $15,000 worth of prizes and raffle items that have been generously donated. We can’t wait to see who wins them!
Books Between Kids has the best volunteers! In 202 Books Between Kids has the best volunteers! In 2023, we’ve had 613 volunteers help out in our warehouse for a total of 1,764.75 hours!!

We are so grateful to have passionate volunteer groups like these pictured, who support our mission and help us get books to kids!

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