Jennifer Garner and Amy Adams are opening their contact lists for their new endeavor to help children during the coronavirus pandemic. Not long after the U.S. came to a screeching halt because of C…
. The celebrity readers explain in their videos how to make a $10 donation with just one text. “We have had 25,000 individual $10 donations come in,” Garner says.caught up with Garner and Adams by phone on Wednesday morning to find out how a trip to get school supplies inspired “SaveWithStories,” who caused Garner to sweat while writing her an email to request she read and whether Adams plans on joining TikTok.
When you look at the lineup of celebrities you have reading books, it’s like a lineup for the Oscars. Who is one person you really want to get to read a story?I’m grateful for everyone we have got. I hate to look a gift horse in the mouth yet. And not only actors, but religious leaders, singers, dancers. It’s been really inspiring and moving to see so many people step forward and want to help right now.I have been asking people all day every day.
If you could talk to the kids who are watching the stories being told and are worried about where their next meal could be coming from, what would you tell them?I would say we care about you and this whole community of people cares, and so do the 25,000 people who have given money just to get meals to you and so do all the people who are working so hard to make all of this happen. No matter how scary the world is right now, you still really matter.
I haven’t gotten to share this with Amy, but Save With Stories India, Australia, Netherlands, Switzerland and the U.K. are up and running. All of these countries have their own celebrity lists and they’re finding a publisher to kick it live like we have with Scholastic. South Korea is up and running. So cool idea, Amy, way to go.I really relied on Jen’s expertise here because I wasn’t even on social media before we started this. I joined Instagram to launch this.Give it some time.
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