Click the blue "Register" button on the event page to secure your spot at the BELRAG Education Symposium.
⏳Registration: $75 – Deadline to register is June 13!
🎙️ Speakers 🎙️
Strategic Goals for Basic Education and Literacy Sarah Pohlman - BEL Area of Focus Manager, Rotary
Mentoring At-Risk Youth: Impact Study for Decision Making Savannah Gulick - RISE: Guatemala Literacy Project
Our Role as Literacy Advocates Steacy Pinney – Changemaker in Residence, Trico Changemakers Studio
Left Unread: Working with Refugee Communities Hyder Hassan – CEO, Immigrant Services Calgary
Literacy Alive: Designing Successful, Long-term Literacy Programs Dr. Lynne Paradis - Rotary Club of Red Deer (Canada)
Grant Model Evaluation: Impact with Technology Meredith Burlew – Director of Grants, Rotary International
Enhancing Opportunities for Our Children - Rotary as Community Leaders Patrick Moore – Rotary Club of Alexandria (USA)
🤝 Volunteer 🤝
We need your help! Volunteers are needed to work the BELRAG booth in the House of Friendship throughout the convention. Just an hour, or two, or as much as you would like. It is a lot of fun and a great way to make new friends interested in basic education and literacy projects. You will experience Rotary at its best as you talk to visitors about their BEL projects and share yours with them as well. No experience is needed. Come join us!
Around 129 million girls worldwide are out of school, with 60 million lacking access to basic education. According to UNESCO, two-thirds of the world’s 960 million illiterate people are women. In conflict-affected areas, girls are twice as likely to miss school, and 1 in 4 girls (ages 15–19) are neither in education nor employment, compared to 1 in 10 boys.
Interested in making a difference? Join the Girls’ Education Professional Team of Experts or learn more about this Rotary initiative by contacting Anu Narula, Girls’ Education Chair, Basic Education and Literacy Rotary Action Group Board of Directors, at: mylife2reinvented@gmail.com.
