Now in its third year at the Perry Elementary School, the Everybody Wins! Iowa Power Lunch program seeks additional volunteers willing to give 50 minutes to one-on-one weekly reading with a second, third or fourth grader.
The reading-mentoring program pairs mentors and elementary students with the shared goal of increasing the students’ success in school and life, according to Kathleen Miner, coordinator of Perry’s Everybody Wins! program.
This year’s program — on Tuesdays — has a new group of about eight second graders who read weekly with their mentors. Last year’s mentors worked with about a dozen third graders, and many of those reading teams are still together in the fourth grade group.
“We have children who need help with reading,” Miner said. “We need volunteers.”
For more information about Everybody Wins! or to volunteer, call Miner at 515-465-2441.
