‘Literacy’ Archives
Rotary at the Festival of the Maples
The Perth Rotary Club was pleased to be at this year’s Festival of the Maples. We had our ShelterBox on hand to display and also held a bean bag toss for the kids to learn about Literacy. Each participant received a book. We hope you enjoyed MapleFest also! 2012 [Read More]
Rotary Grows Readers
The Rotary Club of Perth is once again supporting the Perth Union Library Summer Literacy Program. This year’s contribution of $4000 brings Rotary’s support over the past 15 years to more than $40,000. The literacy program gives kids who have been recommended by [Read More]
Perth Fair
The Perth Fair was September 2-6, 2011 and Perth Rotary was there to help promote literacy in Lanark County. Hundreds of books, school supplies and toys were handed out to children who played our bean bag toss game. All proceeds raised were donated to Rotary Shelter Box [Read More]
Perth Rotary helps Summer Literacy program
The Rotary Club of Perth recently donated $4,000 to the Perth and District Library to help fund their Summer one-on-one literacy program. We have given $37,000 to this program since 2002. Literacy is one of Rotary’s avenues of service. In the photo: Tutor Graeme [Read More]
Rotary Books Feedback from Students
The Rotary Club of Perth recently received a stack of thank you letters from students involved in the Rotary Books project! Take a look at the album to read all their sincere messages. Really great to hear from all the students. We look forward to next year’s Rotary [Read More]
Rotary Books Update
Yesterday, grade 3 students from Queen Elizabeth School came and presented to our club on the benefits of the Rotary Books pilot project. How do you help kids read? You provide funds that allow them to pick books that are interesting to them! Provide dictionaries and have [Read More]
Rotary Books Pilot Project
The Rotary Books Pilot Project aims to enable kids to be active in working with teacher to pick out books, and to get them excited about reading. Literacy is one of Rotary’s areas of focus. We have implemented this pilot project in a few classrooms with great success. [Read More]
65 Years of Giving
The Rotary Club of Perth was chartered on November 29, 1946, nearly 65 years ago. We are part of a worldwide network of 33,000 clubs with more than 1.2 million members. Over this time we have raised and donated several hundred thousands of dollars. We have raised these [Read More]
