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The Glendale West Rotary Club would like to work in conjunction with the Pendergast Community Center to provide Pillows for Kiddos. The Pendergast Community Center recently opened to support community education and health services. Pendergast Elementary School District is a Title I School District. Many Kindergarteners have limited books in their homes and we want to spread the joy of curling up with a book and reading when they start school. We are proposing to buy sewing machines and materials to make pillows for kids. Each pillow has a little pouch in it which a book will be placed. Each kindergartener will receive a book and pillow to encourage literacy.
After funds are received, sewing machines and materials (cloth & stuffing) will be purchased. We will work with Dr. Lily De Blieux to set-up a location with the Pendergast Community Center for the volunteers to work. The goal is have a parent volunteer working with middle school students learning the fundamentals of sewing to sew pillows for younger students. We will work with volunteers to copy the pattern for pillow and sew pillows. Community volunteers will continue to sew pillows throughout the year. After pillows have been completed, Glendale West Rotary Club Members and volunteers will distribute pillows to kindergarteners. Dr. Lily De Blieux, Pendergast Superintendent, along with her staff will assist in the recruiting ongoing volunteers to sew pillows and solicit the support of community partners to provide books.
The public will be aware of the Rotary-Sponsored project by a Press Release to the community and face book postings. Inside each book we will put a sticker with sponsorship information of the Glendale West Rotary Club and Pendergast Community Center.
Addendum to Project Description (added after the project was signed)
The purchase of the sewing machines will allow this project to be sustainable and even expand in the future. The sewing machines will become property of the Pendergast Community Center where the goal would be for volunteers to make pillows with pockets for every kindergartener, every year. Rotary will work with community center volunteers each year to train volunteers if needed, and or secure materials for the project. The sewing machines will also be accessible to the community for other projects since they are in the Community Center. We can look to expand the project in the future with a volunteer teaching sewing classes to adults during the day or students after school at the center.
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