During Drive-Thru Food Pickup Distribution at Boca Helping Hands Boca Raton, FL – As Boca Helping Hands (BHH) pantry bag clients pick up their groceries, they will receive free books, compliments of the local library. The Boca Raton Public Library is donating approximately 150 books for both kids and adults, with representatives from the library handing out the books to families in the pick-up line on Friday, February 11, from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm at 1500 NW 1st Court, Boca Raton, FL 33432.
Prior to COVID-19, the Boca Raton Public Library would periodically host a story time reading program during BHH’s Thursday Night Family Dinners. However, with the BHH dining room not yet reopened for in-person dining, the library decided on the book donation as a way to continue their community involvement. Since starting the initiative last summer, this will be the library’s 7th book distribution. In total, they’ve donated nearly 1,300 books.
With the help of members of the Friends of the Boca Raton Public Library, a nonprofit volunteer organization that provides financial support to the library’s programming efforts, they are now able to donate books to BHH clients.
“Access to books, and especially books in the home, is so important to developing and maintaining strong reading skills,” said Shilo Perlman, Library Assistant (Events & Community Engagement) at the Boca Raton Public Library. “Some of our community members may not have the means to get to the library right now, so the Boca Raton Public Library and the Friends of the Library decided to bring the library to them!”
“We are so happy that our friends at the library have found a way to truly enrich the lives of families who are just trying to find a way to get by,” said Greg Hazle, Executive Director of Boca Helping Hands.
