A report from Marilyn Deling:
At the March 10 noon meeting, it was announced that the leadership of the three Rotary Clubs in Rochester, in tandem with the leadership of Cradle2Career, all agree that this is a good time for Rotary to re-engage with Cradle2Career. Cradle2Career is at a point where they need some additional community support and Rotary has the skills and people power to meet those needs! Throughout this year, there will be opportunities for Rotary to receive more information about the needs of kids, prenatal to young adult ("cradle 2 career"), in our community, how Cradle2Career is working with community partners to meet those needs, and ways in which Rotary can assist.
An immediate need that Rotary recently met was work to collate the "Kindergarten Ready!" cards. A group of volunteers representing all three Rotary Clubs met at the United Way Building the evening of March 15. Led by Claudia Tabini, interim director of Cradle2Career, these 10 volunteers collated 10 cards that had originally not been printed, in with the other cards, to make full sets. The Kindergarten Ready! cards are in English, Spanish, Somali, and Arabic. In two hours time, 500 sets of cards were completed! These cards will be given to parents of preschool-aged children to promote meaningful parent-child interaction through fun and age-appropriate activities.
