RGIII Loves Reading!

'Skins QB Robert Griffin III helped kick off JetBlue's summer reading initiative, Soar with Reading, to celebrate the fifth year of the award-winning program and launch its pilot program, which puts three one-of-a-kind book vending machines in SouthEast DC to provide free books to kids. Anacostia is considered to be a book desert, where kids have little access to age-appropriate books. In the last four years, JetBlue has donated $1.25 million in books. Congrats and happy reading!

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