English is the official, unifying and business language in Nigeria.
Most secondary/high school students in public schools do not have a dictionary, the reference manual for building words. We propose a Global Grant Project to deliver 30,000 Dictionaries to Secondary Schools children in public schools located in Communities that will be served by six rotary clubs in District 9110, Nigeria. The project will support poor students in mastering the language to secure greater opportunities.
Rotary Club of Victoria Garden City, Lagos, District 9110, Nigeria has implemented a similar project on a smaller scale for about seven years and has considerable experience doing it. The proposed plan seeks to extend this service to more students involving more clubs in more communities in the District.
Six local clubs in our District would collaborate with our International Partner(s) in the planning and execution of this project; each delivering 5000 dictionaries to students in schools in its respective communities. Other associated activities for this project will include an English Vocabulary Competition amongst the students and a special English Language Training program for teachers in participating schools.
DictionaryProject.Org, our dictionary supplier, is supporting this project with 3,000 free copies. This has reduced our project costs by US$4,500.
Our sustainability consideration will include support from other organizations in the community and the RC VGC time tested Dictionary Support Collection at every club meeting.
Dropped
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Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year.
Proposed Financing
Existing Contributions Towards This Project
Date
Cash
DDF
Total
Victoria Garden City (9110)
7-Aug-16
$1,000
$5,000
$6,000
Abijo, Ibeju-Lekki (9110)
9-Aug-16
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Amuwo (9110)
9-Aug-16
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Okota (9110)
9-Aug-16
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Sagamu Central (9110)
9-Aug-16
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Ota (9110)
9-Aug-16
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Okota (9110)
16-Jul-18
$1,000
$0
$1,000
Amount Requested from The Rotary Foundation
$3,500
$5,000
$8,500
Total
$20,500
Note: as of July 1, 2015 there is a 5% additional support fee for cash contributions. This fee does not appear in the financials above because it does not apply if the funds are sent directly to the project account (without going through TRF, and therefore without Paul Harris credit). Clubs sending their cash contribution to TRF must be aware they will have to send an additional 5%.
