Dear Fellow Rotarians,
I would like to share with you an important update of the Guatemala Literacy Project below. It is that time of the year again to support this important and tremendously successful project. The donation pledge deadline for the Global Grant Application is October 31, 2024. If your donation pledges end of October are $500 or more, our club can select one individual to receive the prestigious title of Guatemala Literacy Fellow—an honor typically reserved for contributions of $1,000 or more.

 

Guatemala’s Central and Western Highlands exhibit one of the most extreme combinations of systemic poverty, illiteracy, and inequality in the hemisphere. The GLP partners work with impoverished communities to implement four complementary programs: Reading, Textbooks, Computers and Youth Development. The GLP is regarded as the Gold Standard of Rotary projects, one of the largest grassroots, multi-club, multi-district projects in Rotary. The GLP is committed to evaluating the success of its projects on a yearly basis. Each year measurable results are gathered through surveys, interviews, and pre- and post-tests, then shared with all supporters. Since 1997, the Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) has secured over 41 matching grants and Global Grants from The Rotary Foundation.

 

Our Rotary Club has been involved since 2018 and we are asking you, our members, to continue your support for this valuable and needed program. After all, without love and education, a child has no future.

 

f you wish to donate, what should you do? It is easy. Just e-Transfer your donation to our Rotary Club via our donation email address <donations@summerlandrotary.ca> with the message “Guatemala Literacy Project 2024-2025”, then our Treasurer will collectively send all the funds to the GLP with a chance to get up to 3x matching, i.e. CAD 1,000 may turn into CAD 3,000! For your donation you will receive a tax receipt from our treasurer.

 

Thank you kindly for your support.

Aart Dronkers