Frances Robinson has 600 books piled up in her guest bedroom. She’s not a hoarder, a book vendor, or even a speed-reader, however. The books aren’t even hers.
Robinson, along with fellow parishioners at Trinity Church Boston, volunteers weekly at the Paul A. Dever Elementary School in Dorchester. And while volunteering is not something new for Robinson, this holiday season she took her charity work to her home.
Robinson and a group of parishioners decided they wanted to collect 600 new books as holiday gifts for the 600 students at the Dever School.
“It’s a school where some of the most disadvantaged students in the city go to,” Robinson said over the phone. “We go in as literacy volunteers, work in classrooms with teachers, and teach reading and anything related to that.”
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