In just four years, the Altrusa Statesboro has distributed 12,000 books to local children who often have no access to books at home.In fact, according to a study by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, approximately 61 percent of low-income families in Georgia do not have a single piece of reading material suitable for a child in the home. Altrusa member Ruth MacKinnon hopes to change that statistic, one book and one child at a time.Four years ago, during an Altrusa committee meeting, MacKinnon and other members were brainstorming literacy ideas for the county. Altrusa, a community service, nonprofit organization that strives to make local communities better through leadership, partnership and service, is an international group whose main focus is literacy, though each club chooses its own local service projects.