Eight year old, Sacha Tobias, a student from the M.A.C. Browlia Maillard Campus has been selected as a winner of the Butterfly Storybook Competition.
The Butterfly Storybook Project is an annual writing competition organized by the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean for young emerging writers in the Caribbean aged 7-11. The topic the participants had to write about this year was “Giving Something Special to Someone Special” through acts of kindness, friendship, leadership and/or respect.
President Marcellia Henry of the Rotary Club of St. Martin Sunrise stated that this was the first time our club solicited schools to participate in this writing competition as part of our joint effort with the Philipsburg Jubilee Library to pilot the ‘Readers Are Leaders Programs in Elementary Schools’. The Readers Are Leaders Programs for the past 5 years has been encouraging high school students to read at least 1 book per month; however, this year the program is also being piloted in three elementary schools.
Twenty five (25) stories were received from four elementary schools: Ruby Labega, St. Joseph School and the Methodist Agogic Center, both campuses. The top three stories were selected and then sent on to the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean to be judged.
President Henry added that ‘We are ecstatic that Sacha Tobias’ story will be one of the ten stories which will be published in the 2016 edition of The Butterfly StoryBook. The book will be published in four languages (English, French, Spanish and Haitian Creole) and will be available for purchase worldwide on www.amazon.com.
For her outstanding accomplishment, the Rotary Club of St. Martin Sunrise, awarded Sacha with a mini IPAD and a certificate. Other prizes will include a prize money of $50 from the Rotary E-Club of the Caribbean, and a signed copy of the Butterfly Storybook from District 7020’s District Governor Mr. Felix Stubbs, which will be given at the Rotary District Conference in May.