ROTARY’S SEPTEMBER FOCUS ON LITERACY
Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults. HOW ROTARY MAKES HELP HAPPEN – ROTARY SUPPORTS EDUCATION We take action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages. Click this link to view a short video.
Education and literacy throughout Rotary’s history In March 1930, Ray Lyman Wilbur, the United States Secretary of the Interior, asked Rotary and other service organizations to take an active leadership role in the reduction of illiteracy in the United States. Rotary Clubs across the US took Wilbur’s requested seriously:
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