As part of Women United's focus on supporting ALICE families in our community, Women United volunteers are encouraged to take part in the Book Buddies project, sharing your love of reading with young children from ALICE families.
United Way of Northern New Jersey is building an online library of stories being read by people of all ages and backgrounds in our community. We need volunteers like YOU to be a virtual reader and a virtual Book Buddy!
When you register to share your time, a much-loved children's story and your love of reading with early readers in our area, you will use the Book Buddies Toolkit to assist you in recording yourself reading young children's books.
Participating is easy! The time needed is about an hour to 90 minutes to plan and record yourself reading one children's story, depending on how much you choose to rehearse the reading. You will submit your recording via WeTransfer, which make it easy to upload your video and send to us.
Book Buddies is an ongoing project, so feel free to sign up and submit as many recordings of reading children's books as you wish.
We are also encouraging people to read stories in other languages, especially in Spanish (the books themselves do not need to be Spanish-language books). Please contact us for more information about submitting a recording in a language other than English.
Please make sure you also submit the project waiver, which allows us to post your recording on our online Book Buddies Library.
Thank you for helping to promote early reading and the love of reading with new readers!
