This is our 4th year. We really enjoy this project, because the smiles on the students’ faces and the gratitude they show for getting a dictionary is priceless! It is so worth doing! I wish all our members could come along when we present the dictionaries, so that they could all feel the excitement & warm fuzzies we feel when we present them.

We began in 2010 with one school. We then raised money so that we could meet our goal of providing a dictionary to every third grader in Ascension Parish. The members of our organization, Ascension Republican Women, find this the most rewarding of all the projects that we have done.

We have been distributing dictionaries to our 3rd grade students at two schools for several years now. The students really enjoy the dictionaries, and we have always provided the encyclopedic version. We work with our 3rd grade teachers to conduct an essay contest allowing the students to use their new dictionaries. We are proud to be a partner with the Dictionary Project.

This is the 4th or 5th year the Albany Council has been presenting dictionaries. This is so important for the children. This is a great project.

This is our second year. Great program. The students love the dictionaries.

The Mazeppa Lions took part in this project several years ago. We are starting again as part of an effort to donate dictionaries to all third graders in our Lions Zone (Zone 6 of Lions District 5M1). Excellent project. Teachers are pleased to take part.

This is a wonderful project. The children are delighted to receive the dictionaries.

The primary focus of our organization is the human services of literacy, GED, and skillbuilding. By improving the participants’ education, they are more employable and are often better able to take care of personal, family, and civic responsibilities. Helping to break the cycle of under-education and under-employment directly impacts the health and welfare of our children and the quality of life in our community.

This is always a fun task; the children are soooo excited to see us.

This is our fourth year. Each week we have one or more speakers at our club meeting. We give them a card with their name on it telling them that 15 dictionaries will be donated to 3rd graders in their name. When we have enough, we reproduce their signatures on a label, add the label and the Rotary emblem sticker inside the cover, and... Read More