Hamilton News
HAMILTON AREA & OTHER DISTRICT 7090 & 7080 CLUBS PROMOTE LITERACY
The Telling Tales Festival is proud to be able to give back to local literacy organizations. Since 2009 Telling Tales has raised over $85,000 for literacy projects in our community! The Festival is a free, one-day event, but more importantly a yearlong commitment to promoting literacy and inspiring a love of reading. We have over 20 Rotary Clubs in District 7090 and District 7080 helping to support and promote the event and over 150 Rotary volunteers helping on the day of the Festival. It is an event to which the Rotary Club of Hamilton is the HOST Rotary sponsor and it is an event to everyone is very proud to be involved. Click on Read more....The Telling Tales Festival relies on the generosity of sponsors and donors. After all the operating costs are covered, a portion of the remaining funds are donated back into community literacy initiatives.
The recipients of this year’s literacy funding are:
Rotary Summer Literacy Program: $5,000
“The Telling Tales Festival has been a valued partner for the past five years and this funding will help to provide a summer literacy camp experience for over 2,500 primary and junior students in high needs communities around the city,” says Robert Blunsdon, Program Director of the Rotary Summer Literacy Program.
Early Literacy Hamilton’s “Read to your Baby” program: $4,000
These funds will help to purchase books that doctors and health practitioners give to new parents at their child’s 18-month enhanced well-baby visit, along with a “prescription” to read with their child daily and an invitation to get their child a library card.
Hamilton Literacy Council: $2,000
The Hamilton Literacy Council assists adults with low literacy skills. They offer literacy services for parents to help them support their children in school. With the increased use of technology in learning and communicating, these funds will be used to purchase iPads with basic learning apps.
For more on this Telling Tales festival – be sure to go to the website (www.tellingtales.org).
Telling Tales celebrates stories. We do this by bringing together Canadian authors, illustrators, musicians and storytellers with their audience – our children. Telling Tales is a free, one-day, outdoor festival, and a year ‘round commitment to promoting literacy and inspiring a love of reading.