Berks County readers are being challenged to help one lucky shelter pet find a forever home simply by reading books.
For the third year in a row, Reading District Libraries and the Animal Rescue League of Berks County are collaborating on an initiative called Pages for Pets. The program will sponsor the adoption fee of a shelter pet by encouraging people of all ages to read.
Readers from across the county have from June 23 to July 25 to successfully read a combined total of 500,000 minutes. Every minute counts toward the financial sponsorship of an adoption at the Animal Rescue League in Cumru Township.
Readers are free to read whatever they choose, including novels, ebooks, audiobooks, comics and graphic novels and newspapers.
The Animal Rescue League will announce which pet found their forever home thanks to the initiative on July 28.
There are 25 Reading Library District — a state designation — locations throughout Berks. They include the 23 locations of the Berks County Public Libraries System as well as the independent Wyomissing Public Library and Oley Valley Community Library.
Marissa Guidara, youth services district consultant for Reading District Libraries, said the community sponsored the adoption of a 1-year-old pit bull named Egypt after successfully reaching the reading goal last summer.
“Pages for Pets combines two things our community loves: reading and helping animals,” Guidara said. “It’s heartwarming to see people of all ages come together to make a real difference, one page at a time.”
In addition to Pages for Pets, each of the 25 library locations in Berks will be hosting their own summer learning programs, with a full schedule of free activities and programs for children, teens and adults.
For more information or to submit your reading online, visit berkslibraries.org/kids/p4p.
Source: Berkshire mont
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