Q: What's cold and tiring, and numbers 57,404?
A: Overland Park Rotary's amazing book project!
We had many hero-members who braved a horrendously cold warehouse to help get our second delivery of children's books dispatched to their respective homes. 2398 cases of books needed to be unloaded, sorted, restacked, and reloaded to be delivered to several dozen agencies in the area. Fortunately we had the able leadership of Mike Meyers, Donna Deeds,and Brad Vaughn among others.
HERE'S A FEW OF THE AGENCIES WHO RECEIVED BOOKS: Boys & Girls Club of Greater KC, Salvation Army, Rainbow Center, KVC, Head Start, SafeHome, John County WIC Program, CASA, Catholic Charities, Sunflower House.
HERE'S ONE OF THE MANY THANK YOU NOTES WE RECEIVED:
Dear Trish,
Please extend to the Overland Park Rotary Club our gratitude for their donation of new books. We are serving 273 children in Northeast Kansas City this Christmas season.. Many of our children are newly poor, from homeless families, all economically disadvantage, some new to the area with language barriers,many not knowing where they will be tomorrow .
Christmas is a wonderful time of sharing and each child will receives a few gifts and a beautiful new book of their own..thanks to you all. We encourage reading and almost every week put out donated used books for them to chose...what a joy to have a new one!
You have certainly demonstrated "service above self" and many children will benefit from your outreach
With warmest wishes and many thanks
Marsha Elbasani, Children Coordinator
Micah Ministries (we are all volunteer organization)
