The Rotary Club of Victoria-Harbourside provided a $3000 donation to 1000×5, and Executive Director Eileen Eby is delighted. “During COVID we have had to alter plans as you can imagine, these dollars have helped us immensely.” 1000×5 collects books or funds books through donations like this to...
Written by Eileen Eby, 1000×5 Victoria Co-Ordinator What a mountain of donated books! It is so heartening to go into the classrooms where the three 1000X5 projects sort, clean, package and send out books for babies and preschoolers. Volunteers from the Peninsula, Victoria and Westshore...
Written by Daphne Macnaughton, 1000×5 Peninsula Co-Ordinator When the PCEC “1000 X 5” Project began in April 2008, the volunteers and I set a very tentative goal of collecting 1200 books. We adjusted that goal twice in the first year and now—all these years later—we have collected over 100...
Written by Denise Brown, 1000×5 Westshore Co-Ordinator As I was sorting books this week, I came across two favourite wordless picture books and wondered if families understand the worth, the beauty and the power of wordless picture books. Wordless books could be a hard sell for parents...
Check out our new look…. written by Eileen Eby 1000X5 Victoria Check out our new look. We have updated our 1000X5 website and would love to share our latest news with you. Read more to hear about our latest milestones a success story how you might help 1000X5 Milestones We are approaching...
Written by Eileen Eby, 1000×5 Victoria Co-Ordinator Frequently, I speak to groups about all the books that 1000X5 distributes into homes. When I mention that we are always in short supply but heavy demand for books for babies, I often receive the response of “isn’t that too early to...
Written by Daphne Macnaughton, 1000×5 Peninsula Co-Ordinator Most of us have shared delight with young children ending their renditions of the Alphabet Song with Now I’ve said my ABCs; next time won’t you sing with me? Or, Now I’ve sung the ABCs; tell me what you think of me! We celebrate...
The 2016 – 2017 school year begins this week and alongside the children entering the buildings will be the thirty or so 1000X5 volunteers – eager to see what books arrived from schools over the summer. And just as eager to begin again are the agencies which know the value of getting books into...
On Tuesday mornings in July and August, Peninsula “1000 X 5” Project volunteers join members of Saanich Peninsula Literacy at the Open-Air Library (OAL) at Beacon Park in Sidney. The OAL was initiated last summer by Marlene Dergousoff, Literacy Outreach Coordinator for the Saanich Peninsula...
Is there magic involved in sharing books with young children? If there was magic, we would wave a wand and magically, books would be in abundance in the home of every young child. And if there was even more pixie dust to go around, each book would be of high quality, every one of them becoming a...
Kaitlyn and her teacher, Mme Marss looking through some of the books Do you think 11 year olds can lead change? We know one who can and did. In early March, Kaitlyn, a Grade 5 student from Ecole Quadra Elementary, cleaned and bagged the 100000th book collected for the Victoria 1000 X 5 project. ...
Together, we have collected about 250 000 books for redistribution to young children and families in our region. Often, people ask: Where do you get all those books? The answer is: From various sources. Books come to us from: schools… There are collection bins in local elementary schools...