Rotary honors Brent Reuer
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 3 years, 3 months AGO
The Coeur d’Alene Sunrise Rotary Club honored Brent Reuer as a Guatemala Literacy Project Fellow. From left, Brent Reuer, Mark Beardsley, Club president elect, and Karen Cook, club foundation chair.
The Coeur d’Alene Sunrise Rotary Club on Tuesday honored Brent Reuer as a Guatemala Literacy Project Fellow.
Reuer, general manager of The Point Coffee & Market, was selected for the honor as an alumnus of a Guatemala Literacy Project.
In 2015, he spent three weeks in Guatemala representing the Sunrise Rotary club for the GLP annual book delivery tour.
The Guatemala Literacy Project, supported by two Rotary clubs in Coeur d’Alene, provides textbooks, computers and teacher training in rural schools in Guatemala, according to a press release.
This year, Coeur d’Alene Rotary clubs have pledged $6,000, which will be matched by the local Rotary District and the Rotary Foundation.
"GLP is just one of many local and international projects supported by the Rotary clubs in Coeur d’Alene," the release said.
The Guatemala Literacy Project is one of the largest grassroots, multi-club, multi-district projects in Rotary. More than 600 clubs and 80 districts have been working together since 1997 to improve education for underserved students in Guatemala, the release said.
In that time, nearly 225,500 students have been served through four sustainable programs.
