Store Manager Jonathan Castro of the Barnes & Noble in Yonkers gives the first allotment of books from the book drive to the United Way of Westchester and Putnam. United Way of Westchester and Putnam (UWWP) received 3,371 books for its 2020 Holiday Book Drive held by Barnes & Nobel stores in Eastchester, White Plains and Yonkers. The new children”™s books were purchased by customers and donated to United Way.
“We are grateful to be the recipient of Barnes & Nobel”™s 2020 Holiday Drive, which was supported by the generosity of our neighbors who shopped at local stores,” said Tom Gabriel, president and CEO of UWWP. “Education and student support are one of the pillars of United Way”™s mission. We know that books, actual books, are an important tool for child development”¦.These books will help children from low- to moderate-income households that are 61% less likely to have books readily available to them.” Through its United2Read program, UWWP collected and distributed more than 15,000 books across the region to more than 5,000 underprivileged children, from birth to age five, in 2020.
