Kiwanis of Henderson have been putting dictionaries in Vance County North Carolina for 5 years. The teachers have developed a love of these additional resources.

This is our 9th year doing this. The students really enjoy it. My husband and I are known as ‘The Dictionary People’.

This is the third year of the Dictionary Project. The teachers are so pleased the students get the dictionaries – it helps in the SOL’s (Standard of Learning tests) and as one teacher told me, “I couldn’t afford to buy dictionaries for all my students.” The students think it’s special also to have something of their own. One school sent the Rotary Club letters... Read More

It’s a wonderful program! It’s so much fun. Children come back to us years later and tell us that they still have their dictionaries and that it was the best gift they ever got! It’s a wonderful program!

This is the 4th year we have participated in the project. It has been a big hit with the kids, teachers and administrators. We hope to improve the kid’s reading, writing and spelling skills as well as reduce illiteracy amongst our local students. This is a great community project and allows our organization to show community involvement and that we believe that the kids... Read More

The Superior Kiwanis Club has sponsored the Dictionary Project for third graders in our school district for the past 8 years! Our third graders love the dictionaries and it has been a great PR project for the Superior Kiwanis Club.

Members of the group go to all the schools in the district. In today’s economy, it’s great to give dictionaries to the students so their parents don’t have to buy it, or the teachers or the schools. It’s great for everyone!

In the county of Kosciusko, in Indiana, we have 13 public schools and, ironically, 13 Lions Clubs. Last year, 4 of these Lions Clubs provided dictionaries to 4 of the public schools. And now we have the remaining 9 Lions Clubs ordering dictionaries for the remaining 9 county public schools. This will give all of our public school third graders a dictionary of their... Read More

It’s going very well, for a 17-member Rotary Club! Our club is a bunch of educators, I’m a retired teacher and the dictionaries are very important to us. The kids and the club members call me “Dictionary Debra”.