If you aren’t a PBS Sprout watcher than you might not be aware of the very cool thing they are going.
The Great Sprout Tuck-In has teamed up with The Pajama Program to deliver NEW jammies and bedtime stories to children in need.
Here is The Great Sprout Tuck-In Story
The Great Sprout Tuck-In is a prosocial initiative that extends Sprout’s “good night” mission and encourages families to share in the spirit of giving. In partnership with the Pajama Program, a national nonprofit organization, it is our goal to help ensure that every child has a good night by donating new bedtime books and cozy pajamas to the Pajama Program.
As a part of our commitment, we are creating public service announcements that will introduce the initiative, communicate the spirit of giving in a child’s life and drive people to SproutOnline.com to donate. Sprout will also match donations of new pajamas and new books for up to 100,000 children in need during the first year of The Great Sprout Tuck-In.
The new pajamas and new books collected by the Pajama Program and The Great Sprout Tuck-In will go directly to children in need all over the country, including those in foster care who are waiting and hoping to be adopted.
The Pajama Program is a perfect fit with Sprout’s mission. Since we launched in 2005, we have been committed to following every step of a preschooler’s day — from early morning until bedtime. Our signature programming block, The Good Night Show, helps children wind down with bedtime stories and other evening routines, providing our viewers with good nights. Now with The Great Sprout Tuck-In, we can provide children in need with good nights, too.
The Pajama Program is a non-profit organization that has distributed over 200,000 pairs of jammies to abandoned and fostered children throughout the nation. Every 2 minutes a child enters the foster care system usually feeling cold, lonely and scared. The program hopes that providing these children with pajamas and a bedtime book they get back some of the warm and comforting feeling from being with a family.
If you are interested in donating to The Great Sprout Tuck-In you can mail in your jammies and books, make a monetary donation or host a pajama drive party. We all know our own children are tucked in safe and warm each night, do what you can to offer that same security for children in need.
