Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association reads to first graders on Dr. Seuss’ Birthday
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not,” Dr. Seuss once wrote in “The Lorax.”
That was the shared idea when a group from the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association (BWBA) visited an elementary school in Bushwick on Monday as part of a Read Across America event — to help make the community better by getting kids excited about reading.
“We’re always looking for ways to get more involved in community service, and Read Across America was one of the things that the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York suggested,” Hon. Joanne Quiñones said. “We immediately loved the idea because [it] gets the kids excited about reading.”
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