How to Get Involved
There are so many ways you get involved in building bridges of hope and make a difference.
  • Make a tax deductible donation
  • Organize a Fundraiser
  • Organize a book drive
  • Volunteer your time and skills
  • Do a service learning project with your class or school
  • Sponsor a library
  • Create a library in memory of a loved one
  • Start a Reading Drive Chapter at your
    school
  • Wear Reading Drive wristband
Reading Drive Ambassadors
College or high school students who go above and beyond to promote Reading Drive activities their schools and colleges.
  • Proud representative of Reading Drive
  • Share information -connect, network for Reading Drive
  • Engage others to be involved in Reading Drive activities
  • Work-put hard work

 Service learning
 How to link service learning to Reading Drive for Africa

 Why Service learning
  • Provides viable means for applying knowledge , refining skills, and strengthening teaching dispositions
  •  Gives students a venue to implement authentic socio-cultural learning
  •  Offers a focus on authentic experiential learning projects
  •  Provides an alternative method of meaningful teaching
  •  Offers an authentic advocacy experience
  • Provides an opportunity for student voice and decision making

 Components of Service Learning
  • Connections to curriculum, standards, and guidelines
  • Authentic and need based
  • National Service Learning Clearinghouse
Steps of service learning projects.
  • Investigation
  • Preparation
  • Action
  • Reflection
  • Celebration
Some useful links for service learning

When service learning meets the project approach: incorporating service learning in an early childhood program
K-12 Service learning standards for quality practice
Handbook for elementary service learning
Service learning for Middle school
Positive Discipline Cameroon Project
This is our new initiative to partner with Positive Discipline Association with the goal to bring positive discipline to schools in Cameroon. Our target in the next three years is to train 1,000 educators and parents in Cameroon.
We do this by Raising funds to purchase some of these:
  •  Positive discipline books
  • Positive discipline parenting class package
  • Positive discipline in the class
  • Introduction to Positive Discipline Package
  • Positive Discipline Classroom Package
  •  Support training programs in schools and communities in Cameroon and other African countries.
 Join us to make this plan a reality. 
www.positivediscipline.com
Early Childhood Service Learning example