RB Sunrise Helps Connect Military Families
Posted by James Dunny
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| Club Community Chair Steve Redd, Kate Wheeler of Family Literacy Foundation and RB Sunrise Rotary Club President Nasrin Barbee |
This unique program uses videotaped readings to help keep military parents connected with their children, despite long deployments or imminent dangers. "Using videotape, deployed personnel are able to read aloud to a son, daughter, younger brother or sister, grandchild, or even a child they are mentoring." observed Kate Wheeler of the Family Literacy Foundation.
"This makes a huge difference for the kids to feel secure, knowing that mom or dad … or sometimes both mom AND dad … are thinking about them every day and reading to them every night" said Rotary program coordinator Steve Redd.
United Through Reading offers parents who are separated from their families the opportunity to be recorded on DVDs reading storybooks aloud to their children at home from more than 200 recording locations around the world. The United Through Reading Military Program is available for parents deployed with the military on nearly all deployed US Navy ships, desert camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 60 USO centers and on bases worldwide. In 2009 the program served over 250,000 beneficiaries with 17 staff members and over 500 volunteers working together.
Rotary president Nasrin Barbee said this of the club's generous contribution: "Our job as Rotarians is to help people around the community, and around the globe, to live better lives. When a Rotarian asks you for a contribution, it may be to help school kids in your community, hurricane victims in Haiti, or wounded marines. You may not be sure where specifically the money is going, but you CAN be sure the money is going to help those in need."
You can find the Family Literacy Foundation online at: http://www.unitedthroughreading.org/
United Through Reading offers parents who are separated from their families the opportunity to be recorded on DVDs reading storybooks aloud to their children at home from more than 200 recording locations around the world. The United Through Reading Military Program is available for parents deployed with the military on nearly all deployed US Navy ships, desert camps in Iraq and Afghanistan, more than 60 USO centers and on bases worldwide. In 2009 the program served over 250,000 beneficiaries with 17 staff members and over 500 volunteers working together.
Rotary president Nasrin Barbee said this of the club's generous contribution: "Our job as Rotarians is to help people around the community, and around the globe, to live better lives. When a Rotarian asks you for a contribution, it may be to help school kids in your community, hurricane victims in Haiti, or wounded marines. You may not be sure where specifically the money is going, but you CAN be sure the money is going to help those in need."
You can find the Family Literacy Foundation online at: http://www.unitedthroughreading.org/