According to the couple, “Nothing is more fundamental, more foundational, more essential, or more important to a child’s success in life than the ability to read well.”

Through the gift of literature, Stephen and Ayesha Curry are promoting the festive spirit.

The two co-founded Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation, which has given thousands of books to Oakland, California schools.

In an exclusive statement, Stephen and Ayesha tell PEOPLE, “We along with our entire team at Eat. Learn. Play. understand the importance of early childhood education, especially when it comes to literacy.”

The single most important factor influencing a child’s future success is how well they can read. Though there is still much to be done, we think we can improve these children’s lives with the aid of groups like Literati.

Stephen’s “Underrated” book club donation will come in boxes with six books total—five children’s books and one adult novel.

The Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation and Literati will donate a total of 14,000 boxes to Oakland Unified Schools before Christmas, to be distributed to students who are learning remotely due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This is in addition to the 1,000 boxes of books that were given away at the recent Christmas with the Currys event.

The remainder of the donation, which was partially facilitated by Bay Area investor Aydin Senkut of Felicis Ventures, will be given to community organizations in the upcoming year.

Stephen and Ayesha have been keeping busy at home with their three kids, two-year-old son Canon W. Jack and five- and eight-year-old daughters Ryan Carson and Riley.

Ayesha told PEOPLE in September that she and Stephen are “in the thick of it” when it comes to figuring out how to homeschool their two kids, the oldest of whom “officially started school” last autumn.

“My oldest is pretty disciplined, so that’s been easy,” the Family Food Fight host remarked. “But our 5-year-old has a little trouble staying engaged for an extended period.”

One thing that Ayesha and Stephen found works for Ryan is “dancing breaks in between lessons and some physical activity right before class starts to focus the mind and get some of the wiggles out.”

Additionally, we attached resistance training bands to her chair’s legs so she would have something to do in case she gets antsy during a long Zoom session,” The Full Plate author explained.

Ayesha has given Stephen a lot of credit for helping to ease their kids into online learning.

Thank goodness, Stephen has been a great assistance to me regarding the children’s education. She joked that since she had given birth to the children, she was okay with her husband being in charge of their education in a September episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show.

The mother believes Stephen is “making up for lost time, to be quite frank,” when it comes to their daughters.

When they were babies, “he would sleep through all of the diaper changes and the late nights, so now this is his strong suit,” she said.