Children who don't learn to read are almost surely sentenced to life in poverty. Poverty often leads to crime. Troubled, I wondered what I could do to help. Serendipitously, I had my own dog enrolled in a Therapy Dog class where we were told about the R.E.A.D. Program. What great luck. Not only could I help fight illiteracy, the solution involved dogs.
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