Our Mission

Amaya’s Bookreads, Inc. is a Youth Empowerment Literacy & Wellness Non profit Organization that is committed to empowering, engaging, and ingraining the value of literacy and well being for families in underprivileged areas. We at Amaya’s Bookreads, Inc. engage our youth in literacy and well being by providing stimulating group book reads, book lending, tutoring and mentoring. We also provide workshops that promote healthy eating and living, by using horticulture theme based books and hands on activities, such as growing food in the city and in the classroom. Exposing our youth to an environment where academic excellence meets real-world experiences. Our goal is to create a place where all children have the most educational resources available to them for a higher chance of success, no matter what community they are from. We at Amaya’s Bookreads, Inc. supports this mission through our dedication to raising lifelong readers, leaders, and cultivators in families that face adversity especially during difficult times.

Nuestra Mission

Amaya Casa de libro, Inc. es una organización de alfabetización de empoderamiento juvenil que se compromete a empoderar, involucrar y arraigar el valor de la alfabetización y el bienestar para las familias en áreas desfavorecidas.

Nosotros en Bookreads de Amaya involucramos a nuestros jóvenes en la alfabetización y el bienestar al proporcionarles libros grupales estimulantes, préstamos de libros, tutorías.

También ofrecemos talleres que promueven una alimentación y una vida saludable mediante el uso de libros temáticos y actividades prácticas, como el cultivo de alimentos en la ciudad. Buscamos exponer a nuestros jóvenes a un entorno donde la excelencia académica se encuentra con las experiencias del mundo real.

Nuestro objetivo es crear un lugar donde todos los niños tengan la mayor cantidad de recursos educativos disponibles para tener una mayor probabilidad de éxito, sin importar de qué comunidad provengan. Nosotros en Bookreads de Amaya apoyamos esta misión a través de nuestra dedicación a criar lectores, líderes y cultivadores de por vida en familias que enfrentan adversida Especialmente en tiempos dificiles.

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Our Programs

Read it, Grow it Summer Program

Amaya's Bookreads, Inc. Virtual Learning Centers

Read it, Grow it Summer Program

Every summer our program is in NYRP's Target Bronx Community Garden conducting our 12 week horticulture themed based book readings and doing hands on activities such as growing food in the City.

After School Program

Amaya's Bookreads, Inc. Virtual Learning Centers

Read it, Grow it Summer Program

Partnered up with community Schools like Ps. 5 Ellen Lurie in Inwood, Manhattan and Ps. 073 in Highbridge, The Bronx and community garden NYRP's Community Gardens: Target Bronx Community Garden and Swindler Cove to give an indoor and outdoor gardening, literacy and enrichment after school program to our participants in the schools.

Amaya's Bookreads, Inc. Virtual Learning Centers

Pivoting into operating during these unprecedented times, ABR will facilitate participants in a learning and enrichment environment with hands on tutors, support, teacher to student communications Laison, enrichment, snacks, sanitary socially distancing and responsible safety measures.

Masks must be worn!