Giving children access to books is vital to Gulliver Prep junior Christopher Page. He and his sister Lauren created the Page by Page Book Drive around ten years ago when they visited a school and saw that many of the kids did not have books.
He asked why the children don’t have books. And he and his sister vowed that they would fix the problem. Since then, 3.65 million children around the world have been impacted by their work. They even have an app to increase access for people who can’t get reading materials.
“We decided to start redistributing gently used books,” he says. “We would place boxes and we would have Page by Page’s name on the boxes. And we’d make announcements at the public school. I would have events where people could come to my house and box books in the front yard. We had many, many events to collect books in general.”…