Local Rotarian Organizes Effort to Support International Literacy Efforts
Friday, November 12, 2021
Kudos to Rotarian Pat Kasuda for organizing this effort. She continues to make great things happen-along with the volunteers at Charlestown.


 


With several departments and their staff supporting the fifteen resident
volunteers, the November Book Collection was a tremendous success.
The Catonsville Rotary Club partnered with the Charlestown Retirement
Community in Catonsville to conduct a used book collection. Residents from
Charlestown were eager to rid books that they had collected over the past two
years since reading had become a favored pass time for residents shut in by the
COVID pandemic. The collected books were donated to Books for International
Goodwill, a fully volunteer organization which provides services for recycling
books discarded by current users and puts them in the hands of new users, who
are identified as groups both domestic and international having limited resources
for acquiring books. Pat Kasuda, a member of the Rotary Club of Catonsville and
resident of Charlestown, coordinates this effort biannually. According to Steve
Frantzich, Chairman of the BIG Project, this collection of books was a bit over
whelming as it netted approximately six thousand books. According to Steve,
“The hunger for books staggers the imagination. BIG wants to provide the
inspiration to many around the world. “The residents of Charlestown should
be proud of their contribution to this very worthy program.