Betty Gill, Rotary Club of Franklinton, Franklinton, LA
This is the 3rd year the Rotary Club of Franklinton has participated with this project. Very honored to be able to deliver the dictionaries to all 3rd grade students in our school district. Great project! Goes hand in hand with Rotary service projects to combat illiteracy!
Linda Marlow, Rotary Club of Gainesville-Haymarket, Gainesville, VA
We have been donating dictionaries to 3rd graders for about 5 years. We get such positive feedback from the students and the teachers on these dictionaries. I am a community volunteer at Pace West and chair a committee composed of various service clubs that are engaged with doing work at Pace West, a program for children with extreme emotional issues that make them unable... Read More
Deborah Bennett, Caroline County Public Library, Denton, MD
The Rotary Club of Denton has been participating since 2004 with the Friends of the Caroline County Public Library co-sponsoring for the last few years. Every 3rd grader in both our public school system and private school receives a dictionary. The feedback we receive from both the 3rd graders and their teachers is very positive. The children are so excited to be given a... Read More
Kathy Andresen, Sauvie Island Grange # 840, Portland, OR
We love the project. Literacy is so very important to all of our students. This gives our Grange an opportunity to give to a worthy cause so that all of the children can have the proper learning tools, not just those that can afford them.
Suzanne Simmons, Christ Presbyterian Church, Nashville, TN
Our project is called “Change for Change.” Women’s Ministry is donating their spare change at Bible Studies to pay for the books.