Local Rotaractors and Rotarians join Surinamese counterparts to host book drive

Rotaractors from the Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central and Suriname’s Rotaract Club Genesis and Rotarians pose with a child from the Rotary Sophia reading group who was one of the beneficiaries of its outreach exercise.

The Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central organized a book drive to furnish the library of the Care Centre for Children as part of its observances for education month and international Day of Literacy held on September 8.

The newly established library will equip more than 40 children with basic reading material and text books to enhance their reading and communication skills. The club hosted the drive through its ‘International Service Committee’ under the theme ‘Give a book to unlock a thought’, it said in a press release. It noted too that the exercise was possible through support from