International Service

After some technology issues here are some more updates. Below is a picture of some happy kids, with their goofy faces, after getting their illustrated dictionary. One new thing we're doing this year is giving some schools a pre-dictionary quiz. In […]

February 17, 2014 We arrived in Antigua Saturday about 4 pm their time. Our 5 hour layover in Miami turned into a 4 hour delay in Seattle. Glad we were able to use the Delta Sky Club (even though flying […]

At a ceremony with the Antigua Ministry of Education today John Martkinka made the following points. It’s time to stop talking about input and start talking about output. When a project is in its infancy it’s natural to discuss what we’re doing. […]

On Friday, February 22, 2013 there was a ceremony to award a dozen ladies who started sewing lessons one year ago. At that time they barely knew what a pattern is. At the event they models clothes which they made. […]

We continued our five-year project of giving an illustrated dictionary to every third grade student in Antigua and Barbuda. After this year, about 7,500 books to kids! The pictures below are: The dictionary, cover and inside Happy students after receiving […]

The first picture is of our students loading computers onto bare desks for a computer lab in the State College engineering school, about 10:00 am. The second picture is of the finished lab, about 20 computers, pretty powerful Dell's that […]

On February 22, 2012, the Government of Antigua and Barbuda presented The Bellevue Breakfast Rotary Club (BBRC) an award for our five-year effort to improve literacy in Antigua and Barbuda. Rotarians John Martinka and Morris Kremen from the BBRC and […]