Meet Tayten, the ecstatic boy pictured above lying in a pile of books. Tayten received these books through a non-traditional book fair. Guardian Life Insurance Company, Shiloh Hills Elementary, Excelerate Success and Spokane County United Way teamed up to provide a book fair that created the smile you see here on hundreds of students' faces. Guardian Life Insurance Company employees volunteered and helped elementary students pick out books - FUN FACT - when a child chooses their own book statistically they are more likely to read. Next Guardian Life Insurance Company purchased the selected books and every student received their personalized book bag.
Below is a letter Guardian Life Insurance Company received from one of their employees, Jenny, describing Tayten's experience.
My dearest friend sent me a text message yesterday with a picture of a familiar looking navy book bag, with The Guardian Logo and United Way on it. She was so grateful for whatever part we, as a company, took part in regarding this gift her kindergarten son brought home. She asked if we just sponsored the bag itself. When I told her our involvement, she cried, as it meant so much to both her son Tayten, but also his classmates. She said that her son said the "People who gave us the present of books were so nice and they all smiled big." I had to pass this along. Please do share with those involved.
Here is proof of how important this event is for these children. And it hit home for myself, as Tiffany is one of my very best friends, struggling to get back on her feet as a single mother of two, and I was the babysitter for both her kids from birth until I started here. I'm Aunt Jenny =)
Thank you Guardian for approving this event, making it happen, and making such an impact on so many lives. She asked me to share this picture, it needs no caption. I'm even more passionate about this now, not that I wasn't before. But to see little T-man so excited melted my heart.
For this project Guardian Life Insurance Company received the Volunteer Mobilization of the Year award from Spokane County United Way at OVATION.
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