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Durham students help kids in Caribbean read OneWorld Schoolhouse Foundation project at 19 Durham schools OSHAWA — April 2014 By Kristen Calis School children in St. Lucia and Grenada will soon have more opportunity to read thanks to 19 schools throughout Durham Region willing to help a foundation committed to improving literacy in the Caribbean. At the book drive launch at Gordon B. Attersley Public School in Oshawa on Mar...

Challenging literacy development

Although English is the official language of St. Lucia, Krewyol is spoken as much or more outside the classroom.

I read. I travel. I become.
DEREK WALCOTT

St. Lucian author & 1992 Nobel Laureate

Out of this world

After reading "Postcards from Outer Space' a student in Montserrat is inspired to be the next Chris Hadfield.

Too many people grow up. That's the trouble with the world.
WALT DISNEY

(1901-1966)

Reading brings us unknown friends.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Novelist (1799-1850)

It's a long story

Books packed by kids in Ontario for their peers in the Caribbean travel 1,800 kilometres by road then another 5,275 kilometres by container ship.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
KOFI ANNAN

Secretary-General of the United Nations (1997-2006)

All I know is what I have words for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

And the Winner in Montserrat is....

Marlaina White (Left) announces the Second Annual Rainforest of Reading Award to Illustrator Jan Dolby (Middle) and Author Joyce Grant for "Gabby."

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child to cross...that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever.
BARACK OBAMA

If you believe what you read...you can, quite literally, believe anything.
NORTHROP FRYE

Professor, Philosopher (1912-1991)

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
MARTIN TUPPER

Author (1810-1889)

It is by acts and not ideals that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCE

Author (1844-1924)

If you get the right [words] in the right order, you might nudge the world a little.
Sir Tom Stoppard

Playwright

Find 52: The Road to Reading in Grenada

In February 2015, Richard ran right around Grenada, a distance of 52 miles. 52 "Mile Captains" raised $40,000.

If we want to make this world a better place, then we have to become better ourselves. There is no easy route.
DALAI LAMA

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
WILLIAM JAMES

Philosopher, Psychologist (1842-1910)

The future is always beginning now. Each moment is a place you've never been.
MARK STRAND

Poet (1934-2014)

Start some kind words on its travels. There is no telling where the good it may do will stop.
Sir Wilfred Grenfell

Humanitarian, Medical Missionary (1865-1940)

Life is too deep for words so don't try to describe it, just live it.
C. S. Lewis

Author, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe