The Administration of the Yeato Day Care Center and Elementary School is expected to launch a new Children’s Resource Center in August this year.
The Resource Reading room, which is named in memory of the late Hilary R. King of the Norwich Rotary Club, will serve as a perfect platform designed to enhance literacy and foster a love of reading by providing free and accessible books to students of the schools and underprivileged children.
The Center will also act as a quiet space for study and also act as a community hub for families to read to children and participate in educational programming. The Reading Room is an initiative of the administration of the school, in collaboration with Richelieu Allison a former Rotary Peace Fellow, who received his MA in International Politics and Security Studies at the University of Bradford in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Allison presently served as President of the Rotary E-Club of Social Innovators (RESI). In 2012, while studying at the University of Bradford, Hilary King was assigned as one of his host counselors. A counselor is a Rotarian appointed to support a Rotary Peace Fellow during their studies. Hilary was an active member of the Norwich Rotary Club and sadly passed away in 2015.
Mr. Allison is presently working with the administration of the school to refurbish the facilities of the school, including sanitation, improving learning facilities and the provision of safe drinking water. He is working with friends and partners to raise funds for the Reading Room and the refurbishment of the school.
The Yeato Day Care Center was founded by the late Mother Mary Dunn Gadeh to provide quality education for underprivileged children. It has over the years provided education to many young people in local communities.