McKendree Rotaract Club

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McKendree Rotaract Club
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Introduction

• Our Club has been providing community service for
  the last five years
• 20 active members
• Involved in community as well as international
  service
• Interact with rotaract, pumpkin carving,
  recycling, conduct events for old age home, etc.

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International Service Books for Nepal
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Economy and literacy facts
Nepal is ranked 138th in the world (in terms of
GDP) Nepal has an overall literacy rate of
approximately 49, with the female literacy
hovering around 35.
Many schools are without sufficient books for
students or resource materials for
teachers. Additionally, there is no tradition of
lending libraries in the country, and no budget
is allocated for libraries. Sourcehttp//www.r
eadnepal.org/nepaledu.asp https//www.cia.gov/libr
ary/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/np.html
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Nepal
Project destination - Sindhuli
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Project location Dhungrebas

• A village in Sindhuli district central part of
  Nepal
• One operational community library

• Three High Schools, Two secondary schools and a
  college
• Total number of students approx. 3000
• Sindhulimadi is the district headquarter, so
  students from nearby districts come to study

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What we plan to do?

• Provide Books for the community library.
• Either Send books? Or Provide fund to buy books?
• We will ask the library to send us the list of
  the books and the price of the books.
• We will decide on which books to be sent as per
  the available fund.

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Kamala community Library

• A community library
• Set up by the local people and a non-profitable
  organization, READ Nepal (Rural Education And
  Development).
• Number of books and periodicals 8252
• Year Built 2002
• Daily visitors 68
• Source http//www.readnepal.org/nepaldetail.asp?r
  ecordID65index1

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Kamala Community Library
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Library
Dhungrebas community
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Bhushan's Home
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How did we approach the Library?

• Amberdeep Devkota
• A well known teacher in the community and a
  social worker.
• Co-Founder of JanaJyoti Secondary Community
  School.(estd.1980) and Janata School (estd. 1995)
• Member of Nepal Scouts, Red Cross and Lions club
  of Nepal.
• Life time member of Kamala community Library

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Why should we do this project and in this
location?

• A learning aid to the striving education
  foundation of the village
• A step forward in providing necessary books to
  the secondary and high school students
• Long term benefit for our club to plan and
  execute other international projects in the years
  to come
• Demonstrates the Rotaractors commitment towards
  service to the international community

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Fundraising Campaign

• Raised more than 700 from faculty and staffs at
  McKendree
• Collected more than 400 from the Rotarians
• Fund allocated by McKendree Student Government
  1400
• Our Expectation 5000 to successfully launch the
  project

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Benefits for the club

• One of the benefits of doing this project is
  that it will make us eligible for recognition 
  RI encourages all Rotaract clubs to strive for
  the Rotaract Presidential Citation. To qualify
  for the citation, Rotaract clubs must complete at
  least three activities, one of which must fall
  under community service and one under
  international service. The sponsoring Rotary club
  president and the RI district governor must sign
  the Rotaract Presidential Citation form. - Ms.
  Eggers
• Good Publicity for the club, the University and
  the OFallon Rotary
• Increased membership
• This project also reflects Rotarys motto 
  Service above Self and this years theme
  Rotary Shares.

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Conclusion

• QUESTIONS ???
• Subhash Ghimire
• Nishant Timilsina
• Bhushan Shrestha