LITERACY, HEALTH, & HUNGER PROGRAMS

Fellow Rotarians, Secretary Simon has released Rotary II's official literacy, health and hunger programs for the current year.  They are as follows:

Literacy
1.  Distribution of dictionaries to Lockhart Elementary School
2. The 4-Way Test Essay Contest at Cancryn
3. Black History Month reading program at Cancryn
4. Math Counts
5. Interact: Book Drive for African List
6. ENRICH: Received Public Speaking Training
7. ENRICH: Students attended elementary school to encourage kids to read
8. ENRICH: Students honed public speaking skills by talking to elementary kids about   Hurricane preparedness
9. Macon Berryman Scholarship Program that requires a 500-word essay and winner reads essay publicly
10. 1st day of school packets to students

Health
1.Rotary Lions Health Fair
2.Donation of 200K to help build Cancer Institue
3. Donation of funds to Karbarka Orphanage in Russia
4. Wheelchair distributon projec
5. Interact raised money for Namibia to benefit a catastrophe fund (Physical Health)
6. Interact Raised money to give to Nana Baby Home
7. Interact Raised money for Giving Tree (Emotional Health)
8. Relay for Life
9. Joint Rotary project to donate wheelchair to student with cerebral palsy
10. Senior of the quarter (Emotional Health)
11. Seniors Program (Mental Health and Physical Health)

Hunger and Water Management
1. Rotary Soup Kitchen

Enormous THANK YOUs to those Rotarians that continue to actively contribute to the success of these programs! For those of you interested in participating in any of these programs, please sign up by emailing Secretary Simon at rotary@vbs.vi or President Marilyn at rotarystthomas2@hotmail.com.