L-R: Mitchel Rahim, Sugar Land Rotary Vice President; Kelli Metzenthin, Executive Director, Literacy Council of Fort Bend County; Dr. Charles Dupre, FBISD Superintendent of Schools; Tammie Rankin, Outreach and Program Coordinator, Literacy Council of Fort Bend County; and Patrick Bullard, Sugar Land Rotary President.
FORT BEND ISD – The Sugar Land Rotary donated $30,000 to the Literacy Council of Fort Bend to fund a GED project at Fort Bend ISD’s Ridgemont Early Childhood Center. The donation will help fund the project for the next five years. Executive Director Kelli Metzenthin and Outreach and Program Coordinator Tammie Rankin accepted the donation on behalf of the Literacy Council.
“The Literacy Council of Fort Bend County is proud to partner with FBISD, Head Start and the Sugar Land Rotary to provide services to students in the Ridgemont area that want to improve the quality of life for their families and their community,” said Metzenthin.
The Literacy Council has been in partnership with FBISD for the past three years. The organization began providing GED preparation classes at Ridgemont in September 2014. Currently, 15 adults take part in the evening classes that focus on the math, English Language Arts and civics portions of the test.
The Sugar Land Rotary donation will fund five years of teacher compensation (at $5,000 per year) and scholarship awards ($1,000 per year for five years). The Literacy Council presents an annual $1,000 scholarship to a student who received the GED tutoring and obtained his/her GED. The scholarship assists the recipient with tuition costs at a college, junior college or vocational school.