While in Wilson, we met with Dr. Michael Bell, the executive director of the St. John Community Development Corporation.  Dr. Bell is passionate about revitalizing a neighborhood in Wilson where the majority of families fall below the poverty line.  As part of their holistic approach to improving the health and well- being of community members, they created the Save-A-Youth program which provides summer camp to over 1,000 kids and daily afterschool tutoring to about 300 K-8 students. We left a few boxes of books for their library and talked about ways the Lit Lab might contribute to their programs in the future. It was an inspiring hour.

We also took a few boxes of books to the Wilson Spot, which is a non-profit group that aims to Share Positive Outcomes Together for kids and their families in Wilson.  As part of their mission, they offer afterschool acivities and tutoring, sports activities, leadership programs and summer camp.  We hope to work with them in the future to support their efforts to improve literacy.

As you can probably guess, we hope to make many trips to Wilson.  Thank you, Claire and Roddy Colcord