Reader to Reader’s Athena Interactive Literacy Program launched its week-long workshop that combines poetry, family literacy, and healthy eating and cooking.
The Athena Program works with teen mothers from Holyoke, Massachusetts and takes place on the campus of Amherst College.
Chef Bill Collins conducts the healthy eating and cooking lessons and he’s always a big hit. Today’s lesson focused on the versatility of the egg for creating low-cost meals.
The first day also featured a poetry and spoken word workshop conducted by Reader to Reader staff person, Ophelia Hu.
The poetry will be recorded at Northfire Recording Studio on the second day of the program.
The teen mothers are students at The Care Center in Holyoke where they are working on receiving their G.E.D. diplomas.
“This is our fourth year running the Athena Program and we are so pleased to partner with The Care Center,” notes David Mazor, executive director of Reader to Reader. “We have tremendous admiration for The Care Center’s commitment to improving the lives of these young women and their children.”
The Athena Interactive Literacy Program is part of Reader to Reader’s DiscoverBooks Program, which receives generous support from Mary Ann Cofrin and the AEC Trust, the Irene E. & George A. Davis Foundation, and PeoplesBank.
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