At the International Change of Watch meeting in 2017, then President Sandi Durieux reported that the

book project being discussed was too large of a project to take on as an international project. She asked

for one District to step up and get it started.  District 7 volunteered and we have donated to 3 schools

over the last 2 years and plan to donate to another 3 schools this year.


There are no guidelines in place for this project so we have been making our donations based on the needs

of the school.  Our first year we were introduced to Bio Med School in Ravenna Ohio.  This was a start-up

school and they were trying to stock a library.  We donated $500 to the school and they were able to

purchase 118 brand new hard cover books for the library. 


In our second year IOBGA international gave us $100 and our Gavel gave us $500 toward the project.  We

chose 2 schools, Broadmoor School and Painesville Local schools both in Ohio.  Broadmoor is a school for

special needs children of all ages.  They were able to add around 100 new books to their library.  Painesville

took the $500 and purchased over 300 books to supply their summer book box program, a program

intended to keep students reading throughout the summer.


Click here to read more about the District 7 Book Project…