We distribute to three school districts for a total of seven classrooms. Wahoo Elementary, Mead Elementary are public and St. Wenceslaus is a private school. We personally deliver books to each classroom and use the tool box approach telling the students that the dictionary is a tool for learning just as a hammer or saw is a tool for a carpenter.

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!

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

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

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.

Our project is called “Change for Change.” Women’s Ministry is donating their spare change at Bible Studies to pay for the books.

We have participated for several years, great project. We love to see and hear the reactions from the children when we personally hand the dictionary to each one of them. It makes us proud to be Elks! Keep up the great work.

We think it is very important to do something special for the students and we feel 4th graders are at the right age to introduce the concept of doing for others. We think it is a great program and the book choices are great.

We have been doing this project for 3 years now. We love this project. From our end it is very easy and the kids and teachers LOVE them.

Four exciting years. This is a program that has no end as there are always more third graders! We have an economically diverse school system. It is interesting to see how differently the children react when handed a free gift. All are thankful, but some have no idea why someone they don’t know would care about them so much that they would give them... Read More