[1]Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Congress



Just over a year ago, a young Bronx student named Olivia wrote to
Alexandria asking for a literacy hub at her school. 📚 She mentioned that
during the pandemic, it had been hard to get new books.

Olivia’s principal, teachers, family, and community all supported her
idea. So together with Start Lighthouse, an org founded in The Bronx
dedicated to narrowing the literacy gap, Alexandria secured federal
funding to make it happen.

This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we’re lifting up Start Lighthouse and
their work to revitalize defunct library spaces in public schools and
bring multicultural reading programs to classrooms all around NYC.

[ [link removed] ]Dr. King fought tirelessly for education and opportunity for all. Join
us to support these grassroots organizers who are fighting for the same.
Will you make a $5 contribution today so Start Lighthouse
can advance childhood literacy with a social justice lens?

Just over a year after Olivia wrote to Alexandria, we are celebrating the
opening of a new literacy hub for all the students at Olivia’s school to
enjoy!

Start Lighthouse used the funds that Alexandria secured from Congress to
buy desks and teaching materials. They also curated a reading selection
that embraces inclusivity and the diversity of this Bronx school, and will
now be able to help children become proficient readers by 3rd grade.

Olivia’s story speaks so much to how every single one of us in our
community can have power.

Olivia had a vision, and the adults around her believed in that. Now, an
entire school of budding leaders has access to a reading center because
she took action.

[ [link removed] ]For Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, help us celebrate Dr. King's legacy of
activism, community, and opportunity for all by supporting Start
Lighthouse’s work to bring the empowerment of reading and education to
children around NYC →

Thank you for standing with this movement and our community.

In solidarity,

Team AOC


 


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