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A preschooler and his dad read together at the Revere's Beachmont School
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KPMG helps launch Raising A Reader MA in Revere
"Do you want to get your books?"
"Yaaaaaay!"
The 15 children in Ms. Ebner's integrated pre-kindergarten classroom at Revere's Beachmont School shrieked with excitement as their white organza gift bags from KPMG were passed out the morning of Wednesday, November 9th. One by one the children were called forward to receive their bag filled with books, crayons and notepads. Children, like four year-old Zineb, ran to open their bags with their parents who were visiting the classroom for their orientation to the Raising A Reader MA program. As Zineb searched through the bag of books her ten month old brother, who sat on his mother's lap during the Raising A Reader MA orientation, turned the pages with her.
KPMG donated the gift bags and books to Raising A Reader MA as part of their commemoration of the anniversary of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. Employees at KPMG in Boston filled more than 500 of the gift bags with specially selected books and toys for pre-school-aged children. The bags were then given to Raising A Reader MA to distribute to the high need families and children they serve across the Commonwealth.
Beachmont teacher Elizabeth Ebner thanked Raising A Reader MA and KPMG for the gifts, which helped kick off the Raising A Reader MA program in her classroom. "Children and families understand that the quality of the books provided is much higher than many of the books they may have at home. As a result they place higher value on them and higher value on reading in general." Echoing the excitement of Ms. Ebner, Valda, a mother whose son John is in Ms. Ebner's classroom, said "This bag will be like bringing home a new toy every week. He'll treat the books so good knowing that they have to be returned to school and also knowing that he'll be able to take new books home.
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