We are grateful for the opportunity to share books with our 
partners in honor of Family Literacy Day. It was a joyous event ensuring that children have access to books and get excited about reading!
We are happy to introduce our newest partner, Garderie sur le chemin de l’école!
We are happy to introduce our newest partner, Blossom Academy!
Yesterday, some students from St.George’s School of Montreal helped out in our library. We were happy to have them volunteer with us!
We are pleased to announce a new 
at CPE Crocus! Pictured above is the director, Caroline.
What a wonderful holiday party honoring our amazing volunteers and a special thank you to Shamim Khan, our long standing volunteer of 35 years! Thanks to all those who attended. Thank you to our wonderful sponsors, Notre-Boeuf-de-Grace, Sandrini Confections and Première Moisson. We also said goodbye to our lovely librarian, Niusha, and thanked her for her years with . Once again, from all our staff to all our volunteers you are the best! Happy Holidays!
Yesterday, we presented an Early Literacy Workshop for parents at one of our s, PEP (Parents engagés pour la petite enfance)
Our mission to raise literacy levels by empowering 
partners to instill in children a life-long love of reading and learning from birth, and to enable free access to books and animation services has been a great success this year – 127 programs located in 85 sites!
As Fraser Hickson ventures into its 135th year of existence we invite you to join in our efforts to ensure early literacy development is a top priority in everyone’s ‘books’ in 2020!
‘Increasing literacy skills in the workforce by an average of 1% would, over time, lead to a 5% increase in GDP, or $54 billion per year, every year, and a 5% increase in productivity. (Literacy Lost: Canada’s Basic Skills Shortfall-2018’ Frontier College)
Two of our amazing volunteers, Marlon and Vicki, animated story time at the Jamaica Association of Montreal for their Christmas event this past weekend.
