I was new at this starting in the spring of last year. I discovered that presenting a program rather than just handing out dictionaries seemed to be more effective. What I enjoyed introducing to the students were the many parts that these dictionaries comprised, such as the back part, which introduced facts like in an almanac. The schools that we tend to choose are... Read More

This is very rewarding!

Mike Melton and I have been doing this for the about 6 years, we include comic books donated by Emblem Club # 254 on drug awareness, as National Drug awareness week is shortly after this. We have received letters of gratitude always from all the schools. We have done as many as 16 schools and 1,500 dictionaries.

This is the fourth year our Rotary Club has been participating in this project. We make every effort to get the books to the schools early in the year. We visit each school to distribute the books. The children are always excited to see us and get their own books. We follow up with photos and stories in our local newspaper. Our Rotary Club... Read More

We Kiwanians are dedicated to changing the world one child and one community at a time. In keeping with this, we are providing dictionaries to every sixth grade student in Pahrump.

We explain the importance of education and communication through the use of the dictionary. Our club has been doing the project for several years and we the Lions really enjoy taking the dictionaries out to the schools and giving them to each student and seeing their smiles and getting a thank you from each student.

As a Telephone Pioneer club, we want to assist our local schools and this is the 3rd year that we have been participating in this project. We are real believers in what you are doing and feel that it is really helpful for the students to have a personal dictionary. Some of the students have told us that this is the first book that... Read More

The Elysburg Rotary Club is proud to a a part of this literacy project. It gives us great joy to present these to the students, and hopefully they will remember the day they received these and become a future Rotarian.

We enjoy doing this project, and to see the young children’s faces light up getting these dictionaries is a very good feeling for us.