Books Heal the Impact of ICE
Support Chicago School’s Recovery
McCutcheon families are being impacted by detention, deportation, and the intense fear of both.
Books create a sanctuary for families—a place to rest, hope, and heal.
McCutcheon families are watched their neighborhood change overnight.
Books allow us to “open our hearts” to our immigrant families and neighbors.
Working with the nonprofit, I’m Your Neighbor Books, McCutcheon plans to purchase a collection of books set in our Immigrant and New Generation communities.
With the book discussion materials I’m Your Neighbor Books provides, we will use stories and conversation to build a safer community.
The book collection will roll from classroom to classroom on a wooden cart engraved with the invitation, “Read to Welcome, Read to Belong.” These books will provide sanctuary, social emotional support, and a new sense of our neighborhood.
Our goal is to raise $4000
Raised to date: $1652
“We need books to break open our hearts,
so that we might feel more deeply,
so that we might be more human
in these unkind times.”
—Sandra Cisneros, author of
The House on Mango
Street on
Efrén Divided/Efrén dividido
