https://www.crsadmin.com/Gen/Accounts/986/General/0872cb9c-faa8-4ab7-8f6b-dc8260eeb28c.jpgRtn Suzanne B with help from Rtn John B on the computer gave us a powerpoint presentation on the Munros and the work they are doing in Bangladesh.

On March 30, 2011 the Rotary Club of Dryden is co-sponsoring with the Retired Teachers of Dryden (District 35 of RTO/ERO) a dinner at The Centre to raise funds for a literacy project by the Canadian charity The Amarok Society’s Mothers of Intention Literacy Project.

Bangladesh, is a country about the size of Southern Ontario and has a population of 140,000,000. The country has over 9000 slums, with a population of 5,400,000. Almost all of them are in cities. Dhaka the capital has a population of 18,000,000; that is equivalent to seven cities the size of Toronto.

Families who live in slums are illiterate and the children do not go to school because they are simply too poor. 

Tanyss and Gem Munro, the founders of the Amarok Society and creators of the Mothers of Intention Literacy project have found a way to bring education to slums in Dhaka and Khulan by educating mothers who must in turn educate 5 children.

If you have not signed the attendance sheet at Rotary, please contact Suzanne or sign it if you are at Rotary this week.

Dinner and talk will be limited to the first 120 persons and you will receive a tax receipt later this year for part of the cost of your ticket which will be $50.00 per person

This is a wonderful way of enjoying some fellowship, listening to some inspirational speakers, and contributing to international literacy.

The goal of our dinner is to raise $2,500.00 for literacy in Bangladesh.