Youth Service Committee
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CHILDHOOD LITERACY - Steve Close , Subcommittee Chair
The teachers and principals of the schools involved have enthusiastically endorsed the program. More volunteers are needed so any Rotary member with an hour-a-week of tutoring time to give is encouraged to join the committee.
The Rotary Club of Denver has an award-winning Childhood Literacy Committee that has been active since 1996. The primary goal of the committee is to promote literacy in the Denver Public School system through the use of a volunteer tutor spending one hour a week, one-on-one with an elementary school student, helping him or her with reading skills.
In order to ensure greater focus and impact, the committee decided to concentrate on reading skills only. The program has been very successful at Munroe Elementary, a low-income school in the Denver Public School system. A major benefit of the program at Munroe is that we provide individual attention and associated support to kids that need it most. Because the schools are in low-income areas, a major benefit of the program is providing the individual attention and associated support that some of these kids don't have in their home environment.
