WARRENTON – Summer Reading Program

When children leave school for summer break, there is a tendency for some of the knowledge that they have learned at school to be left behind. This is why SAF-HOLLAND has partnered with the Warren County RIII School District near our Warrenton facility, by providing help to pack more than 1,600 special cloth book bags with reading and work books for kids to take home over the summer.

The school district has handed out these book bags to kindergarten and first-grade students to encourage them to keep up their reading skills over the summer. The book bags were donated by SAF-HOLLAND and members of the Corporate Social Responsibility Team in Warrenton gathered at the central office to help fill the book bags. Each bag contains one workbook, flash cards, and a reading list. Students who complete their reading list will be rewarded with a picnic at Binkley Woods and Spector Lake Park. Those students who are able to show they’ve studied the flash cards will be rewarded with a coupon to McDonald’s.

Many of the books were purchased through donations by SAF-HOLLAND, who has also made a monetary donation towards the district’s Care to Learn Program, as well as a larger donation towards updating technology for the local schools.