The Chicago Bulls Read To Achieve Program Holds a Reading Session for Blind Children Tonight

Despite their dire record, the Chicago Bulls are all about doing good deeds. This week a few of the Bulls will get together to hold a reading session for blind children. Some of the team’s players – namely Joakim Noah, Joe Smith, Adrian Griffin, Thomas Gardner and JamesOn Curry – will celebrate reading with more than 20 children from the Chicago Lighthouse today as a part of the Chicago Bulls Read To Achieve program. The event will take place at the Bulls practice facility, the Berto Center, in Deerfield, Illinois and is sure to be widely-attended. According to press notes, the Chicago Lighthouse is a non-profit agency “committed to providing the highest quality educational, clinical, vocational and rehabilitation services for children, youth and adults who are blind or visually impaired.”

After today’s team practice, the participating Bulls players will read aloud to the attending group and some of the children will show the Bulls how to read from their Braille books. The team members will then participate in a question and answer session with the kids. The Chicago Bulls Read To Achieve program inspires literacy among windy city youth by encouraging families and adults to read regularly with young children. “As part of its annual commitment, the Bulls host Reading Time Outs with local children, distribute more than 5,000 new books and organize literacy activities,” explains press notes.

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