Quoting Frances, "The beautiful life of being a Rotarian is to visit any country around the world and be welcomed with open arms. Thank you to my new İstanbul Rotary friends for a wonderful welcome."
Lewisville Morning Rotary Club welcomes back Francisca (aka Frances) Al-Waely at the September 1st meeting. Club President Bob Troyer performed the induction ceremony as her sponsor, Deanna Perkins looks on in this photo.
Frances is the Regional Branch Manager, South Region for the DATCU Credit Union here in Lewisville. Having joined our club 10 years ago when she served in several different rolls including club Treasurer, she is now back as an active member. Frances lives in Lewisville. She has a daughter and granddaughter.
The Book Drive for Kids organization wishes to to help create a culture of literacy by providing books for disadvantaged children for independent reading.
Independent reading is reading that is not tested, is content chosen by the reader, and is done for pleasure or personal fulfillment. Studies suggest that independent readers become better readers, score higher on achievement tests in all subject areas, and have greater content knowledge than those who do not. Today's guest speaker, Michelle Cook shared with our members how her organization which started with the simple concept of "recycling" children's books has grown to one that has provided 40,888 books to 36,330 students at the 93 book fair events hosted by Book Drive for Kids since 2017.
Lewisville Morning Rotary members partner with Pedi-Place to deliver fully fully school supply stocked backpacks for eight of their 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th grade patients.
Some PediPlace patient families are unable to afford the back-to-school supplies for this school year. In July PediPlace reached out to local organizations such as ours to provide donated school supplies for their patients whose families could not afford the $40 to $75 cost of each child's school supply list. Our club members provided enough donations and we shopped for enough school supplies to assure that 8 of their patients have everything they need for this school year.
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