2024 Mayer School Christmas Project filling the bags
Last year our Prescott-Sunup Rotary Club filled bags for homeless high school students at the Mayer School. This year, we have chosen to expand that project to include both Middle School and High School students. The projected number for this project is a minimum of 50 students to be served, but the need is greater — 100 students. We are filling the bags with basic supplies that they use on a daily basis — if they can get them.
At last report, these items are still needed to help fill the Christmas bags for these students:
1. Toothpaste
2. Shampoo and Conditioner
3. Deoderant body wipes for those unable to shower
4. Deoderant
5. Unisex socks
6. Chapstick
7. Body Lotion
8. Body Wash
How can you help?
• Cash Donation — we will shop for you
• Bring to our Wednesday meeting
• Order from Walmart.com or Target.com
and deliver to:
Marsha Teller
6849 Golder Tree Drive
Prescott, AZ 86305
(Deliveries are checked daily)
Bags will be packed at our club meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Plan to come early, by 6:30, that morning to help pack the bags, Members of our new Mile High Middle School Interact Club will be coming to help. Donuts and hot cocoa will be served.
LITERACY
One of Rotary's 7 Areas of Focus
Statistics tell us that 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. It is a wordwide problem which Rotary seeks to address through one of our 7 Areas of Focus.
Inspired by her father's inability to read, and the limitations that placed on him, Dolly Parton created her Imagination Library program in 1995. Due to its effectiveness in helping to assure that children will become literate, by learning to read with their parents' help, her program has spread around the world. Children, ages 0-5, are provided every month with a free, age-appropriate book, delivered to their home. Parents are encouraged to use those books to regularly read out loud to their children, and then to begin helping them to read, as they are able.
In 2019 our three Rotary clubs here in Prescott joined together, with each club leveraging their contribution through the use of a Rotary Foundation District Grant, brought Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program to Prescott. According to a front-page article in The Daily Courier, on Sunday, Nov. 23. the Imagination Library of the Prescott Area (ILPA) currently delivers books to over 3,000 children. This is a literacy success story in our own community, which our three Prescott Rotary clubs initiated, and which our clubs have continued to support each year.
It has been noted that the intent of The Rotary Foundation's grants has been to enable Rotary clubs and districts to initiate projects and programs which will meet recognized needs, and which will become sustainable with other local support. That goal has been reached with this project. Enough other support has been generated for this program over these years that it has proved to be sustainable. In fact, Rotary's role in beginning it was not even remembered and mentioned in this newspaper article.
Since each Rotary club in our district is limited to the funding of only one District Grant project each year, and with our club's one District Grant continuing to be used for this literacy project, it has been suggested by some that it may be time for our club to move on, and begin initiating a District Grant project each year to address a different need. It is a suggestion worth considering. It should be explained, though, that our club has continued to be able to sponsor and support TRF Global Grant projects. We are not limited to any number of Global Grants.
CLUB SERVICE
Sunup's Christmas Party will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 5:00 p.m. in the Marina Room of the Hassayampa Inn.
The Cost is $50, and guests are welcome.
The Deadline for reservations in this Wednesday, Dec. 3.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Wreaths Across America
There is still time to participate in the Wreaths Across America with our fellow Prescott Rotarians. It will be held on Saturday, Dec. 13th at 11:00 am at the Prescott National Cemetery, 500 AZ -89.
There will be a brief ceremony, followed by placing a wreath on a veteran's grave to honor him/her this holiday season.
If you are still interested in joining us, please email Marsha Teller at:
Marsha.Byrne@gmail.com. I would be happy to register you.
The following have registered to attend:
Marsha Teller
Jane White
Russ Davis
Parshalla Wood
Tiffany and Emmett Jones
INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
Our Club's Partnership with
ALEM gives mobility. Affordable wheelchairs are made by staff who are themselves using wheelchairs.
In a partnershikp with Hope Haven West, ALEM is now assembling specialty wheelchairs for children with paralysis. The ALEM teams assists them during the seating clinics in Mexico and other countries. In addition to the 3,000+ wheelchairts ALEM repairs and rebuilds each year, they have helped Hope Haven fit wheelchairs for more than 500 children. Our Interact Ambassadors to Mexico travel down to Cuernavaca each summer to work with this amazing ALEM team..
Two years ago our Prescott-Sunup Rotary Club sponsored a TRF Global Grant to open a new branch of ALEM in Mexico City. That branch now hosts many wheelchair repair clinics, and helps to build capacity for ALEM to do the increasing load of wheelchair repair work they have been taking on. The latest news is that the Rotary Club in San Luis Potosi now hopes to start another new branch of ALEM in that important city, which is located halfway between the US border and Cuernavaca.
DISTRICT NEWS
D5495 Rotary Pop-Up Learning:
Our Laura Vanderberg will be the Facilitator for the free webinar on Saturday, Dec. 13, at 8:00 a.m. The topic of this webiner is: Approachable, Practical AI to Make Club Work Easier.
This is the second in a series of four free webinars offered for club leaders by Rotary District 5495's ELDC Education Committee.
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