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Friday, February 21, 2025 1:34AM
FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Action News was successful the vicinity for the commencement of a caller concern betwixt Fresno metropolis and region officials, and state fable Dolly Parton.
Local leaders announced the motorboat of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library connected Thursday.
The metropolis and region managed to rise the $400,000 needed to money the program.
Every month, from a child's commencement until the property of five, kids get escaped children's books mailed to them, careless of a family's income.
31 kids who are portion of the archetypal families registered were determination to observe this caller chapter.
The extremity is to rise literacy rates and assistance adjacent existent speechmaking gaps successful Fresno County.
"60% percent of 3rd graders successful Fresno County are incapable to work astatine people level and erstwhile a kid struggles to read, they conflict to constitute and that literacy spread follows them crossed their full world vocation and beyond," said Fresno City Councilmember Tyler Maxwell.
Parton launched the inaugural successful her hometown successful Tennessee backmost successful 1995 and it's grown nationwide.
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