Read to Me program

Something else I have recently learned about the IWK Health Centre is that they have volunteers reading to kids. This quote is from the Winter 2007 Newsletter on the Read to Me Website:

"A hospital waiting room can be a stressful place for children and their families. In January 2002 Read to Me!launched a reading program at the IWK Health Centre for children who are awaiting treatment. The program runs in the Emergency Department, Outpatient Day Clinics, Same Day Surgery and has recently expanded to the Perinatal Follow-up Clinic. The simple act of sharing a story with a child can bring comfort and joy and help make the time seem to fly by."

The Read to Me program gives a literacy kit containing books and other literacy materials to all 10,000 babies born in Nova Scotia each year. What a great way to start a lifelong love of books!