What You Can Do

The Ellensburg Morning Rotary Club in Ellensburg, Washington is a group of people who come together every Thursday morning at 6:45 to promote Rotary’s theme of "Service Above Self." One of our focus areas is LITERACY. While we always welcome support for any of our literacy projects, the one that we are focusing on at our "Read All Around It" Fundraising Market, is our Training the Trainers in Southern Sudan: A Literacy Project.

During the Fall of 2008, our Club had the opportunity to host John Dau, one of Southern Sudan’s lost boys, at our club meeting. Among other inspiring words, he shared with us his dream of teaching teachers in his village more effective ways to teach the children. Since the 2008-2009 Rotary theme was Making Dreams Real, our club voted to support John Dau's dream. Two of our members, who are both educators, along with educator, Janet Finke, traveled to the Pan African Reading for All Conference in Tanzania, August of 09. The club also sponsored two Sudanese educators from John Dau’s village in Southern Sudan. At this conference, our educators did a needs assessment, provided professional development, and began developing a long-term relationship with teachers in Southern Sudan.

Please see how you can graciously support Training the Trainer and other very worthwhile projects through our "Read All Around It" Fundraising Market. Purchase an item from the Market Menu and receive a gift that "thanks you" and that will remind you of the project you support. Items with a red heart by them denote that you will receive “good feelings” for your donation.

What You Can Do

Purchase an item from our selection and receive a gift that Thanks You and will remind you of the project that you supported.

• Sudanese Lentil Soup Recipe & Red Lentils
  $10 Training the Trainers in Southern Sudan
• God Grew Tired of Us Book & DVD
  Based on John Dau, a lost boy from South Sudan $100 Training the Trainers in Southern Sudan
• John Dau's Traced Hand Print
  $150 Training the Trainers in Southern Sudan

What You Can Do

Purchase an item from our selection and receive a gift that Thanks You and will remind you of the project that you supported.

• The House in the Night by Susan Marie Swanson
  2009 Caldecott Medal Award Winner. This is a bedtime verse, offering reassurance to young children that there is always light in the darkness. $25 International Literacy Day/First Baby Project
• Inflatable Globe & the Three Cups of Tea music CD
  $35 Reading Across Continents
• Harold and the Purple Crayon, 50th Anniversary Edition & a Crayola Box of 96 Crayons
  $25 Tubs for Tots

What You Can Do

A Red Heart means “THANK YOU” very much for your support. Your generosity will touch the heart of a person seeking knowledge.

• Discovery Middle Level Learning Center
  $15 Discovery Middle Level Learning Center
• Circle of Success Registration
  For one young child $60 Circle of Success
• GED Scholarship
  $85 Erleen Beckley GED Scholarship Fund

What You Can Do

A Red Heart means “THANK YOU” very much for your support. Your generosity will touch the heart of a person seeking knowledge.

• Books from Deng Malual Library
  $50 Training the Trainers in Southern Sudan
• Dictionaries for 3ed Grade in Ellensburg School District
  $10 Dictionaries
• If you wish to financially support literacy and teacher training in Southern Sudan please send your check made out to Ellensburg Morning Rotary to:
  
  Ellensburg Morning Rotary Club
  Attn: Judy Backlund
  P.O. Box 12
  Ellensburg, WA 98926
  
  * EMRG has applied for a 501 C 3 charitable organization status