Northport Rotary hosts fifth annual book drive with collection boxes throughout community

The Northport Rotary Club is hosting its annual book drive to support basic education and literacy for children; most of the donations will be given to Hindi’s Libraries, a Long Island not-for-profit organization that donates books to more than 350 organizations nationwide spanning across all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Africa, India, and Israel.

Over the last four years, the Rotary has collected and donated over 35,000 books. The Northport-East Northport community can continue to make donations through the end of the month, and into the beginning of June.

Organizations that benefit from the drive include homeless shelters, foster care agencies, low-income schools, legal aid societies and hospitals. Some books will also be shipped to a library in Mbitini Primary School in Maasai Mari, Kenya.

New and gently used books should be free of tears, stains, marks, missing pages, and missing pieces. Acceptable donations include books for infants through young adults (board books, picture books, chapter books, novels). The Rotary asks that community members do not donate coloring books, activity books, study material, cookbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, games, or prayer books.

Collection boxes are located at: St. Philip Neri Church; St. Anthony’s of Padua (church, school, and outreach); Trinity Episcopal; Weekday Nursery School, Northport Middle School; East Northport Middle School; Northport High School; Ocean Avenue Elementary School; Northport Library; East Northport Library; Northport Village Hall; Coach Realtors in Northport; Flagstar Bank; First National Bank; Shindokan Budo; YDA; Visiting Nurse Services and Hospice House; Laurel Laundromat; Northport Physical Therapy; National Grid; and Lotus Method Pilates.

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