Rotary Club donates dictionaries

March is Literacy Month for Rotary International when Rotary Clubs around the world engage in activities to boost literacy. The Upper Darby – Lansdowne Rotary Club recently donated dictionaries to the William Penn School District for every third grader enrolled in their schools. Internationally, Rotary Foundation funded a learning method known as the Concentrated Language Encounter (CLE) method in Brazil in 2001 that is continuing to boost literacy rates among low-income families throughout the country. To date, more than 72,600 Brazilians have learned to read and write through this method.
Pictured is Rotarian Phyllis Sockwell, with Rotary Club President Pat Lyman, presenting an edition of the dictionary to Dr. Steven Greenfield, Assistant Superintendent for the William Penn School District.