POULSBO ROTARY FIGHTS POVERTY
The Poulsbo-North Kitsap Rotary Club has joined with Second Table Ministries (STM) to support two Early Childhood Development (ECD) centers in South Africa. Early childhood development has been recognized by the South African government as the single most effective human capital investment that can be made.
One promising project Poulsbo Rotary has helped support is an innovative home-based ECD program that one of STM’s champions, Bradley Stoffels, pastor of Aliwal North in South Africa, has built in his village. Bradley’s childhood education center has been so successful that he ran out of room to house all the children. His solution was to create satellite class rooms in selected homes in the neighborhoods surrounding his school.
Rotary’s financial support has done much to further this effort, address the devastating injustice of Apartheid, and give these young children a fighting chance at a better life.