WSOS Afterschool Program Students
Gain National Support for Literacy
through 1 Million Good Nights Pajama
Program
WSOS Community Action Commission
school-age afterschool programs were
recently selected to become a recipient of
the 1 Million Good Nights Pajama Program.
This program provides new pajamas and new
books to children in need nationwide. The
program was founded in 2001. Founders of
the programs sought to target children who
are less likely to enjoy the simple comfort
of having a mother or father tuck them in
at night with warm clean pajamas and a
bedtime story. Many of these children live
well below the poverty levels and are in desperate need of food, clothing and sometimes
shelter. The project goal is to provide One
Million Good Nights for children who need
them most.
Much of the success of the program can
be contributed to Scholastic Books, a lead
partner on the project who has donated hundreds of thousands of new children’s books
to the Pajama Program program since 2007.
The Literacy Program’s goal is focused on
lifelong learning and upon making a positive impact on the growth of student readers.
Measuring the impact of the Pajama Program
on positive change in our student readers’
growth is the important focus of the Literacy
Program also.
Through its partnership with Carter’s, Pajama
Program is able to provide hundreds of
thousands warm and comforting pajamas to
under-served, abused and neglected children
to help create a secure and nurturing bedtime
environment. Carter’s have been supporting
Pajama Program with generous contributions
of new pajamas, funding and annual in-store
donation drives since 2001.
Before the Christmas holiday season WSOS
was contacted by a representative from the
Pajama Program Headquarters & Reading
Center in New York City with the award
notification. One hundred and twenty-two
pairs of boys and girls pajamas were delivered to the afterscho