Richmond Mom Brings Literacy To Laundromats. - Worlds Best Story

Richmond Mom Brings Literacy To Laundromats.

04 Sep 2014

Tana Monteiro is a working mom and an organizer for the Richmond College Prep School. Of course, she wants her son to read. But she finds actually getting him to Richmond’s Main Library to be practically impossible. It’s only open five days a week.

It closes its doors, most days, at 5 pm. What Monteiro does have time for, though, is doing laundry. She has to.

So there she was at the Clean Xpress Laundromat one day. She saw how bored her son was, and that’s when something clicked.

Why not bring the library to the laundromat?

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