Hands On Network

Book donation boxes will be available throughout the area at common meeting places such as schools, businesses, churches, and other high traffic locations.  Books donated will be sold online, regifted to literacy programs, or  recycled to pulp.  (Sorry, we cannot accept phonebooks, magazines, encyclopedias, or dictionaries).  The funds raised will support Hands On Ogeechee's Youth Action Centers and general operations.

Youth Action Centers are student-led, student-manged volunteer centers at local high schools.  HOO seeks to sponsor up to 30 Bulloch County students who will attend the 21st Century Leaders week-long summer leadership institute on a Georgia college campus.  The mission of 21st Century Leaders (http://www.21stcenturyleaders.org) is to expand the number, diversity, and skills of Georgia's future leaders.  After the summer institute, students will then organize and implement community service projects for area nonprofit organizations; and recruit, manage, recognize and lead their peers in service to their communities for class credit and/or volunteer service hours.  A successful outcome of the pilot initiative in Bulloch County will result in a full-scale 10-county implementation in the Spring of 2008.

We will need help publicizing, collecting, sorting, and distributing the books, ASAP.  Please contact Jeremy immediately by email (jeremy@handsonogeechee.org) or call 912-541-4544 to find out how you can help.