As part of Portland Rotary’s long-standing commitment to childhood education, we promote literacy by reading to elementary school students in Portland, both during the school year and summer. Since 2015, Rotary Readers have visited K-2 classrooms at Lyseth Elementary School. In 2023 alone, we have been reading to 16 classrooms reaching 320 students over a four-month period. During the summer, a team of Rotarians reads to children, ages five to ten, at the North Deering Gardens Housing in Portland. Every student in these programs goes home with a copy of the book that is read to them in the classroom. Last year, a total of 1,256 books were distributed to students to read and keep.
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