Rotarian Karen Davis from our club has been hard at work this past year bringing the Dolly Parton Imagination Library to our community. Karen sent our club an update on the project which I would like to share a bit here with you. Congratulations Karen!
"I have had the fortunate experience to be part of the Imagination Library initiative and also gratefully acknowledge the support that this wonderful program has received in Dauphin. I know that the success of the Imagination Library is in part due to the generous support of the Rotary Club in addition to the members and their organizations who value this program as well. We are nearing 70% of registration numbers (almost 300 children), most communities take almost three years to get to that stage, and we did it in six months. " Karen
Some background information:
The Rotary Club of Dauphin is the first club in District 5550 to start a branch of the Imagination Library to provide free books to children from birth to kindergarten.
This program is the result of collaboration between Rotary International and the Dollywood Foundation. Rotary works with entertainer Dolly Parton to launch the Imagination Library whihc is a program that provides free books to youngsters from birth to kindergarten to give them a head start on reading.Under the agreement, Rotary clubs in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom are encouraged to support the Dollywood Foundation's Imagination Library program, which provides an age-appropriate book each month to children from birth until age five, so that parents and other family members can begin reading to them as soon as possible.
Local Rotary club participation could include promoting the program within the community, helping to identify and register the children, and paying for the books and mailings. The average annual cost is $28 per child (CAD$60 in Canada; £24 in the U.K).Once a child is registered with Imagination Library, the Dollywood Foundation sends the child one book a month, beginning with "The Little Engine That Could." The books are chosen to match the typical childhood development stages. Appropriately, the final title is "Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come."
Since its launch in 1996, Imagination Library has provided more than 15 million books to preschoolers. About 115 individual Rotary clubs already participate in Imagination Library. For more information, visit www.imaginationlibrary.com.
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