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Kentucky's children are getting more help when it comes to early literacy earlier this year.

Dolly Parton stopped in Lexington to celebrate a major milestone for her charity.

The Imagination Library provides free books to kids under the age of 5 since June.

The program has been servicing all 120 counties in Kentucky.

Now another group is stepping in to make sure the program remains a success.

More about that in tonight's Education Matters.

Report.

>> People think the Dolly Parton case for those that quite a foreign office, a case for a lot, but she doesn't quite pay for it all.

It costs $2.60 on average to print and mail a book to a child every month and it is because of local program partners and the state of Kentucky that every child in Kentucky has the ability to have a book mail to them in every zip code between the ages of 0.

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Help make us.

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It helps our brains to grow big and strong.

One of the most important things that was touched on is that the books are free you.

But sometimes we as grown ups need to make sure that there's money so that folks can get to you.

>> And the Kentucky Association of Health Plans is the trade organization.

>> That represents the health insurance communities.

So we represent commercial health insurance.

But really the Medicaid managed care organizations of the Commonwealth and has been CEO's.

We're always looking to better the health of Kentuckyian in various roles.

So the association representing all of that has been able to have the really unique opportunity to find grant opportunities to organizations who are bettering the health of Kentuckians.

And we were able to come across a magic that Dolly Parton's Imagination Library of Kentucky where we were proud to grant them $100,000.

That will go to printing and sending books to children under 5.

So more children can have an opportunity to have their own at-home library to have books at home because we know how important literacy is.

We know that literacy directly impacts anxiety and depression.

And we know that anxiety, depression lead to other health.

Issues and concerns that we don't want to happen to Kentucky ends.

So it is our true honor to be able to provide these books to little kids, to be able to support the child, to be able to support the family and make sure that our children are ready for kindergarten and are ready for the world.

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We're also going to use some of this money for the Lexington and Louisville programs.

They are.

They get their money's local program partners get their money by fund raising.

And so they are going to use it for a matching grant >> Smiling faces there, according to the Imagination Library website.

43% of eligible kids in Kentucky are currently receiving books from