Computer Lab for Helping Hands

 

The Rotary Club of Springfield has won a grant from Rotary District 6460 to help eradicate homelessness in Springfield. We are proud to partner with Central Baptist Church to equip a computer lab for the clients of Helping Hands of Springfield and be a part of the Heartland Housed collaborative effort to eradicate homelessness in Springfield in 5 years. The Club’s Peace Committee led this effort and is part of an international Rotary commitment to reducing the causes of inequity and conflict in our communities. The Peace Committee met with numerous community groups before focusing a major part of its current solutions-oriented work on this partnership. 

 

The lab will enable clients to learn basic computer skills, do job searches, write resumes, submit job applications, stay in contact with families and, for young clients, succeed in completing their schoolwork. We will continue to work with Helping Hands to support its clients through personal engagement and involvement in Rotary service projects. Rotary is committed to working with those healing the wound of homelessness in our community rather than applying band aids to it.

 

We submitted a media alert to local newspapers and television and radio stations to generate some press coverage for the project. If you have any contacts that would help us get coverage, please let me know.

 

For more information please contact:

Dr. Jim Applegate, Co-Chair, Peace Committee of the Rotary Club of Springfield