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This week’s post is short, but for all of us at NHR, incredibly moving. This letter came to us from a book bin in Fair Haven that gets free books from NHR. We believe it is proof of the incredible power of literacy, community, and our mission.

To whom it may concern:

I have been given hours of enjoyment because of your books.

I am homeless and on the streets. It is such a pleasure to have people like yourself who go out of their way to bring pleasure to people like me.

I just wanted to thank you so much for taking the time out of your lives so that my life is made a little happier!

God bless and thank you again!

Christine 

The first page of the Fair Haven book bin letter

The second page of the Fair Haven book bin letter

Two weeks ago NHR’s Executive Director, Kirsten Levinsohn, and Book Bank Director, Victoria Smith, joined other volunteers at the Help Your Shelves project Build Day, where they constructed a new Help Your Shelf book bin for Scantlebury Park! Check out photos from the build day below, and read more about the project from The Arts Paper and The New Haven Independent!

The Help Your Shelves project is a partnership between New Haven Reads, Make Haven, and the New Haven Land Trust which will bring book boxes—similar to Little Free Libraries—to six New Haven neighborhoods early this summer. To apply for a Help Your Shelf in your neighborhood or learn how to donate, visit MakeHaven’s website.