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Tag: volunteering

Literacy Hampers at the Food Hub

Literacy Now Burnaby handed out 100s of books at the Burnaby Neighbourhood House south food hub today. With the help of our busy volunteers, people received literacy hampers with age-appropriate books, colours, activity sheets, The West Coast Reader, and info in various languages on community resources like the Neighbourhood Small Grants, Burnaby Public Library, NewToBC, etc. This project was made possible through…
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Library Champions Online

Are you a new immigrant looking for:Canadian volunteer work experience?Online access to community and library resources?Better communication skills?More confidence?New friends and connections to community?A better understanding of your community? The Library Champions Project offers all of these things and much more! To be a Library Champion, you must:Want to volunteerLove libraries and helping other peopleBe…
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Raise-a-Reader with Harman Pandher at the Burnaby Neighbourhood House

Literacy Now is honoured to have Harman Pandher’s illustrated children’s book, Gurpreet Goes to Gurdwara: Understanding the Sikh Place of Worship at the Burnaby Neighbourhood House! Harman, himself a former member of the board of directors of BNH, came back as a visiting author to do 3 live virtual readings made possible through the Raise a Reader initiative. The local…
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