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McClane Children's Hospital
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The Racquet Readers set up 3 libraries at Rec centers around Austin
Donation to Austin Children's Center
Austin Children's Shelter, Thursday, August 8, 2013
The group will be donating books to the Austin Children's Shelter where the staff has requested mainly teen books. We plan to continue to supply them with whatever they may need in the future to establish a good relationship between the Racquet Readers and the children of Southeast Austin.
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Pharr Tennis Center CTTA Final Tournament/Picnic
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Libraries, November 14, 2013
Libraries were set up at 3 recreational centers including, Monotpolis Rec Center, METZ, and Gus Garcia. The libraries have books for all ages for kids in after school programs. We plan to set up libraries in all recreational centers that CTTA serves in the near future.
Pharr Tennis Center, Thursday, August 15, 2013
Every Summer, the Central Texas Tennis Association holds summer tennis camps for over 1500 kids all across Austin at over 23 different sites. At the end of each summer, there is a picnic and tournamnet where all participants in the camp of all ages are invited to compete and enjoy one final day of fun in the sun. Racquet Readers will be in attendance for their second year running, setting up tables with hundreds of books for kids to pick and keep as they get ready to go back to school.
Temple,TX, Friday, August 9, 2013
The McClane's children hospital has requested children's books ranging from 0-6 years of age. Sanjit Kumar, a dedicated member, will be carrying out this delivery on the way to a tennis tournament in Dallas. We are tennis players after all. This will be the third donation to the hospital. We plan to continue our efforts to spread books into every corner of the state that needs them. McClane's uses these books in their play areas where admitted patients and their family's have the opportunity to read.
EVENTS
End of Summer, September 14, 2013
The Students Teaching and Reading Together club was founded at Westwood High School by the Racquet Readers. The club now has 14 members and works to collect, donate and read to kids around the city after school once a week. It hopes to expand in the future.
S.T.A.R.T
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Westwood High Literacy Club
Westwood High School,March - April
The Racquet Readers, in association with the Westwood Student Council, NHS and IBSO organizations will be arranging a book drive and giveaway to help collect books for its cause and to spread awareness of the growing illiteracy in East Austin. The drive will last 2 weeks and collecting bins will be placed all around the school. There is also a intiative within Westwood itself called S.T.A.R.T. (Students Teaching and Reading Together) that will pursue the same goals as the Racquet Readers.
Texans in Motion
Donation, December 3, 2013
The Texans in Motion, an organization that promotes car-seat safety for younger kids, has helped us tremendously by carrying our books to their car-seat saftey events. They have also distributed books to children in Head Start programs in counties surrounding Austin.
