Rotary Youth Exchange Students help Rotary members in Minnesota pack school materials for a nonprofit in Guatemala.
By Rotary Voices staff
Rotary clubs in Minnesota, USA, have banded together to send boxes of textbooks to and purchase school supplies for an organization in Guatemala that is helping students from poor families receive an education.
In 2014, the step-daughter of James Benshoof, a member of the Rotary Club of Crystal, New Hope, Robbinsdale, decided to donate dozens of textbooks to Common Hope, a nonprofit based in St. Paul that works to provide educational opportunities, health care, and housing assistance to families outside Antigua and Guatemala City. The books were being replaced as part of a curriculum change at a Spanish-immersion school where she taught.
Benshoof’s Rotary club, and several others in the area, got involved in raising the money necessary to ship the books to Guatemala, and gathered together in December with several Rotary Youth Exchange Students to pack addition materials they had collected. They also received a $7,000 grant from their district to purchase school supplies in Guatemala once the shipment arrived.
“What inspires me the most about the project is the opportunity to benefit these children by giving them access to more books and …read more
Source:: Rotary International Blog
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