| Support Team Building with Books at the LaSalle Bank 2007 Chicago Marathon and help empower urban youth throughout the U.S., while providing education to thousands of children in developing countries around the world.
At Building with Books (BwB) we engage primarily urban youth through after-school programs and in their classrooms. We integrate global education presentations into social studies classes, and through our after-school programs students contribute intensive community service while helping to build schools in developing countries around the world.
BwB has established these programs in 90 schools in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania. In the past year, students in the U.S. contributed nearly 70,000 hours of service working with elders, homeless and young children through BwB. 97% of the American high school students we have worked with over the last five years have gone on to college.
Since being founded in 1991, BwB has built schools in remote villages of developing countries on four continents. We have just completed construction of our 217th school. There are now more than 100,000 children and parents that have attended BwB schools built worldwide.
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