Raising Literacy
Awareness
Let’s celebrate literacy and the efforts of Rotary clubs everywhere. Promote your club projects as well as literacy awareness in general. RI is asking all Rotary clubs to plan a project or celebration for International Literacy Day on September 8 and Literacy Month in March. Let’s celebrate literacy and the efforts of Rotary clubs everywhere. Promote your clubs project as well as literacy awareness in general. A list of D5100 club awareness projects can be found below. Be creative! Consider new projects and/or new approaches to existing projects. The scope of literacy opportunities is boundless!
- Arrange a speaker to discuss literacy issues in your community, particularly how those issues impact child mortality at a club meeting
- Donate a book to a local school, library or community center in your speaker’s name each week
- Partner with public library to sponsor a public event promoting the importance of reading
- Organize a public-awareness campaign encouraging parents to read to their children
- Vocational Literacy Awareness
- Continuing Education for Young Parents
- Community Service Tutoring
- Local literacy seminar (with district) focus on Dictionary Project or child mortality issues
- Club members volunteer to help seniors understand tax preparation
- Book Donation to Headstart Reading Program
- Initiate a project that specifically addresses child mortality issues
- Participate in a reading readiness project (Books for Babies, Imagination Library, Sandparents or SOUNS for literacy)
- Sponsor a reading competition or spelling bee
- Literacy recognition or award programs to create public awareness and appreciation of positive literacy stories-sponsor student of the month, sponsor teacher-of-the-month, scholarships for students
Resources
- Donation Form(pdf)
- Imagination Library
- Books for Babies/Friends of Libraries USA
- SOUNS
- Celebrate International Literacy Day
- Reach Out and Read- Promotes early literacy by reading and giving books to children pediatric clinics
- Read to Grow- How to organize a book drive w/ The Book Drive Toolkit
- National Institute for Literacy