<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1RQKkK_0vldSHEz00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1RQKkK_0vldSHEz00" width="970" height="550" ><figcaption>Image via Harriett's Bookshop, Instagram.</figcaption></figure>Harriett's Bookshop is aiming to create opportunities many local youth aren't likely to get in studying abroad to Paris. Harriett’s Bookshop owner Jeannine A. Cook is aiming to send 10 North Philadelphia youth to study abroad in Paris this fall, writes Shara Dae Howard for KYW Newsradio.Cook’s reasoning is because of her understanding that there are kids that would otherwise rarely get such a life-changing opportunity. Just like the bookshop itself, <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/Harriet-Tubman/">Harriet Tubman</a> is the inspiration behind the trip to Paris.“If you’re in the spirit of Harriet Tubman, you know the <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/Underground-Railroad/">Underground Railroad</a> is this sacred passage between places with people you may not know are in the railroad with you, but are there to help you move from place to place,” she said.Cook is also the owner of two other bookshops: <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/Idas-Bookshop/">Ida’s</a> in <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/New-Jersey/">New Jersey</a> and <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/Josephines-Bookshop/">Josephine’s</a> in Paris, named in honor of <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/Ida-B-Wells/">Ida B. Wells</a> and <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/Josephine-Baker/">Josephine Baker</a>, respectively. Cook and her team worked diligently with the <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/School-District-of-Philadelphia/">School District of Philadelphia</a> to “crest the first-ever credit-baring course for young people in an accelerated high school.”Fundraising efforts are ongoing as the bookstore seeks more donations before it can reach its goal of sending 10 students to <a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/France/">France</a> for its study abroad program.<a href="https://bucksco.today/tag/Harrietts-Bookshop/">Harriett’s Bookshop</a> and its owners quest to send local youth abroad in <a href="https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/news/local/philly-youths-will-go-to-paris-thanks-to-philly-book-store">KYW Newsradio</a>._____<div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BpznO3x7Tdk?feature=oembed" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div>Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on <a href="https://philadelphia.today/">PHILADELPHIA Today</a> in September 2024.</div></body>

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Harriett's Bookshop is aiming to create opportunities many local youth aren't likely to get in studying abroad to Paris. Harriett’s Bookshop owner Jeannine A. Cook is aiming to send 10 North Philadelphia youth to study abroad in Paris this fall, writes Shara Dae Howard for KYW Newsradio. Cook’s reasoning...