The 100 Women Who Care CK group recently chose Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library as recipient for their charitable donation.
The $11,000 donation to the Chatham-Kent chapter of the Imagination Library, supported by the Kiwanis Club of Chatham-Kent, started off the 11th year of 100 Women Who Care in C-K.
The donation was appreciated.
“Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful news! We are incredibly grateful for the generous donation from 100 Women Who Care CK to support the Imagination Library in Chatham-Kent.” Jeanne Smitiuch, senior regional director for The Dollywood Foundation of Canada, said in a media release.
The 100 Women Who Care CK group meets four times a year and votes on which local non-profit organization will receive their support for that quarterly donation cycle.
The Kiwanis are the local partner for Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The program helps deliver books to young children, helping them learn to read.
Since the local partnership was introduced in Chatham-Kent in 2022, more than 1,100 young children have received monthly mailing of books that are colourful, fun and informative at no cost to their families.
More than 80 per cent of the books are written or illustrated by Canadians, some of them with indigenous themes.
Consistent with their focus on children and literacy, the Kiwanis Club of Chatham-Kent commits to supporting each child enrolled in Dolly Patron’s Imagination Library from the time they register until their fifth birthday.
Currently there are almost 900 children throughout 20 different communities in the municipality receiving books and the goal is to expand that number as quickly as funds allow.
