In an underprivileged child’s sparse bedroom in Georgia’s Greene County, there were no toys or video games. There was only a collection of donated books, but the child valued them above all and read them repeatedly.

Tera Cochran recounted this story at the Seven Hills Rotary Club on Tuesday at the Coosa Country Club to illustrate the feedback her fellow volunteers receive from parents whose children benefit from receiving books and other materials encouraging reading from the Ferst Foundation for Childhood Literacy. Rome Seven Hills Rotary provides monthly book subscriptions for 65 children in Rome and Floyd County.


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