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L to R: Rtn Keith Davies, “Ping”, Kai, Christine Ready, steady…..Roll out
and Helen Davies, Rtn Ray Bishop
Paignton Rotary Club has led the way with a
Keith, Christine and Kai Davies visited the clinic at literacy project that has been developed by
Christmas to hand over the brushes, together primary school teachers, called Ready Steady
with a large amount of toothpaste. It was all Read, and the programme is starting to spread
smiles on the day, although some patient out among the Peninsula’s clubs. Already, it’s
treatment was taking place in the same room. been further developed by Crediton (see the
December magazine) and plans are afoot to roll
Also in the picture is Ray Bishop, of Hope Island out the scheme in Tiverton and Braunton Caen.
in Queensland, who with his wife Sue, were the
driving forces behind the project. They work Each child is given 40 consecutive, 30-minute
closely with Ketut “Ping” Suardand, the clinic one-to-one sessions by a literacy specialist, who
manager. “Ping”, although not himself a Rotarian, is funded by a Rotary Club. It costs about £375
has been awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship. per child per term and typically, four children
would be involved at each school at a cost of
More information: Hope Island website: £1,500 to the club.
www.hopeislandrotary.org.au
Contact at Crediton, Devon: More than 100 students have been helped thus
JulianPratt@gmail.com. far, with the vast majority showing significant
progress. A spokesman for the RSR scheme said:
RI President K.R. “Ravi” Ravindran talks about “Academic research shows that those children
being a Gift to the World who have made limited literacy progress at seven
years of age never catch up. It is surely no
Video: coincidence that over 75 per cent of the prison
https://youtu.be/SQKOFsmsOLk population are functionally illiterate.”
Kits containing supportive material, including a
template for a consultant’s contract and ways to
promote the scheme are available.
More information from Stephen Kings of Paignton
on 01626 681362 or 07590115607, email
kings@kecl.org,
or Julian Pratt at Crediton, 01363 83425 or 0782
4313541, email Julian.pratt@ipassociates.eu.
