ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION AWARDS GRANTS

 

The Healthy Learning Paths program was awarded a grant in the amount of $1,550.00 to cover teacher scholarships that will allow financially challenged teachers to attend the  Healthy Learning Paths Conference for teachers and health professionals.  This event will cover children's health issues and the relationship between health and learning.  This program is the result of the "Be Well, Learn Well" program that began in Broomfield Emerald Elementary pre-school classes and is being expanded this school year into each grade level at Emerald.  Teachers and health professionals from the Broomfield area will work together to learn, and understand, the ways in which they can work together to help implement the "Be Well, Learn Well" program in every school.  The conference will be held on September 12^th at the Ramada Plaza Hotel.

 

Impact on Education -Crayons to Calculators  was awarded $1,500.00 to be used to purchase 150 scientific calculators to be placed in school supply backpacks that are to be given to qualifying students at BroomfieldHigh School and Broomfield and AspenCreekMiddle schools. Principals of  these Broomfield schools endorsed this program citing the importance of calculators to students in science and math.  Each year, Impact on Education and Crayons to Calculators prepare school supply backpacks for students K thru 12^th grades.

 

The Broomfield Rotary Charitable Foundation awarded a grant of $2,000.00 to a clean water system to be completed for the community of Mungao, Kenya.   The Broomfield Rotary Club is joining the Hawaii Rotary Club in this project. Water wells will be repaired and water source springs will be provided with protection from contamination.   Bathing areas and fifty pit latrines will also be constructed.  

 

A grant of $2,000.00 was awarded to a clean water project in the ChristmasIslands in the southwest Pacific.  Toilets and wash stations will be constructed on four islands. 

The Broomfield Rotary Club is joining the Commerce City Rotary Club in this project.

 

It is through the support of the Broomfield community that the Broomfield Rotary

Charitable Foundation is able to make grant awards to those whose needs are great.

Thank you for continuing to value the work we do:  "Service Above Self"'

 

 

 

Submitted By Joseph R. Mazzola