"I have a passion for it. I know through my work in prison ministry that I see the other end of the results of those that don't learn how to read. I know a woman I've worked with in the prisons recently that has been in tears because she can't read the workbooks and the journaling they do in the prisons. There's no one there to teach them how to read. She just couldn't read. It dooms people if they can't read in our society. You can't go to work in a factory anymore if you can't read.
And I fall in love with children, how can you not? I believe all God's children on the earth belong to all of us. Reading opens a magic door and no matter what you like, someone has written a book about it."
-Veteran Volunteer C.C. Johnson has been serving with Reading Camp since its beginning with the Cathedral Domain camp in 2002. She helped part-time with the Domain camp at its beginning and then joined the Danville team when they had their first Reading Camp. In 2006 she volunteered at three Reading Camps. In 2007 she did four Reading Camps. This week in Danville is the first of many weeks of Reading Camp for C.C. this summer.
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