Souns: How Rotary is Changing Preschool Education
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Puerto Rico has a struggling economy and education system. Learn how Rotarians use the early literacy program Souns to reach disadvantaged young children through Head Start and Early Start programs. Find out what makes this project sustainable, and learn how it is benefiting students and teachers in both North America and South Africa.
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Souns: How Rotary is Changing Preschool Education
- 1. Souns How Rotary is changing pre-school education Moderator: John Richardson Panelists: Brenda Erickson, Amy Matusek June 13, 2017
- 2. Background
- 3. Session Objectives How Partnering Leads to success Illustrate the Power of Global Grants Demonstrate how Service Projects are Scalable
- 4. Partners in Success Actual Partners • Municipio de San Juan Head Start (180 classrooms) • New York Foundling en Puerto Rico (San Juan, Coamo, Vega Alta and Cataño)(41 classrooms) (1,120 pre-schoolers) • Fundación para el Desarrollo del Hogar Propio (14 municipalities)(17 classrooms) • Programa de Head Start Municipio de Mayagüez (Mayagüez, Añasco, Las Marias, Maricao) (1,000 pre- schoolers) New Grant • National Head Start Association (NHSA) • Administración para el Cuidado y Desarrollo integral De la Niñez (ACUDEN) • Serves more than 19,000 pre-schoolers, in 815 classrooms in more than 60 municipalities (more than half of the Head Start population in Puerto Rico)
- 5. Partners in Success Districts • District 7000 • Rotaractors Rotary Clubs • CR Cuidad de Turabo • CR Juncos • CR Mayagüez • CR Rio Piedras • CR San Juan
- 6. Partners in Success Districts • D5470 - Colorado • D6900 – Georgia • D6960 - Florida • D6990 - Florida • D7730 – North Carolina • D9350 – Angola, Namibia, South Africa, • D9400 – Botwsana, Swaziland, Mozambique, South Africa Rotary Clubs • Rampart Range, CO • Bainbridge, GA • Cairo, GA • Fayette Daybreak, GA • Fayettville, GA • Henry County, GA • La Grange, GA • Smyrna, GA • Peachtree City, GA • Cape Coral Gold Coast, FL • Ft. Lauderdale FL • Knysna (S. Africa) • Pretoria East (S. Africa) • Sea Point (S. Africa)
- 7. Projects in South Africa and in the USA
- 8. Grant History Year initiated 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 Grant Number MG 76806 MG 79436 GG1412635 GG 1523886 Amount $27,000 $18,000 $37,400 $40,000 Districts D6990 D6990 D6900 D6900 D7000 D7000 D7000 D7000 Clubs Ft. Lauderdale South Ft. Lauderdale South Peachtree City Peachtree City Rio Piedras Rio pIedras Rio Piedras Henry County San Juan San Juan Rio Piedras Isla Verde Carolina San Juan Mayaguez Juncos Cuidad del Turabo Rotaractors # Classrooms 135 90 103 200 # of Children 2700 1800 2353 4000 Area impacted Head Start Head Start Head Start Head Start San Juan San Juan Georgia Mayaguez San Juan Caguas There have been three inbound Souns Grants in Puerto Rico since 2011 and one outbound to District 6900
- 10. Results With 100% of the sets in-use and 20 children per classroom, the existing program can impact up to 8,500 preschoolers, year after year! D7000 Souns MG MG GG Annual Pro Forma Impact 76806 79436 23886 Total 2011-12 2,700 2,700 2012-13 2,700 1,800 4,500 2013-14 2,700 1,800 4,500 2014-15 2,700 1,800 4,000 8,500 2015-16 2,700 1,800 4,000 8,500 13,500 7,200 8,000 28,700
- 12. Scalability D7000 in partnership with D6900, D6960, D6990, D7730 and the Rotary clubs of San Juan, Smyrna, Peachtree City, La Grange, and Cape Coral Gold Coast have submitted a Fourth Global Grant (GG1751286) for $163,000 called Let Every Child Read Commemorating 100 years of Rotary in Puerto Rico. When it is completed, the Souns program will be present in over 1,250 classrooms and over 25,000 preschoolers will be impacted in Puerto Rico…yearly. This represents nearly 70% of the pre-school population on the island.
- 13. So, What is Souns?
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- 19. Questions? John Richardson… jrichardson@ihepr.com Amy Matusek ... .asmbooks@hotmail.com Brenda Erickson ... brenda.c.erickson@gmail.com
- 20. This presentation and others from throughout the convention are available through the convention mobile app and on SlideShare at www.SlideShare.net/Rotary_International.
- 21. Rate this session in the Rotary Events app, available in your Apple or Android app store.
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