November is Rotary Foundation Month.
During this month, each bulletin edition will have an article about how your Rotary Foundation (RF) money is spent to assist with humanitarian projects world-wide. It’s important to note that 91% 0f funds contributed to RF are spent directly on projects.
Supporting Education: More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17% of the world’s adult population. Rotary helps to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, and to reduce gender disparity. We do it by taking action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages, through…
- teacher training
- adult literacy programs
- educating refugees
- coaching teachers
- mentoring students
- schools 4 freedom (action group against slavery)
“When you teach somebody how to read, they have that for a lifetime. It ripples through the community one by one
(This was the last in this series from Rog Taylor, on the Rotary Foundation)