PHILIPSBURG:--- Always remember, Readers, Make Great Leaders. Garrison Keillor said, A book is a gift you can open again and again.
With this in mind, the Youth & Education Committee of the Sint Maarten Lions Club undertook a reading awareness Project in an effort to give back to our community, particularly our young students. The aim of the project was to increase the love of reading by making interesting story books available to our youngest readers. The target group of this project was playschool age (0-3) and students up to Grade two (age 8).
In order to have greater involvement in our corporate businesses, the Sint Maarten Lions Club invited them to support this Project by offering them to place collection boxes in strategic areas where their employees could donate new or used storybooks.
Businesses were offered an alternative option to donate towards this worthy cause Read more
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