BEL Around The World Webinar Series September 1 - September 30, 2025
This September, we are launching another “BEL Around the World Webinar Series,” a month-long event designed to highlight education and literacy projects from Rotary members around the world. Each day will feature two different 30-minute webinars showcasing active Rotary projects, sharing insights, and discussing impactful strategies for improving basic education and literacy.
AM Session will take place at: 9:00 AM EDT (Check your local time)
PM Session will take place at: 9:00 PM EDT (Check your local time)
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Spread the word with your Rotary clubs, partner organizations, and networks. Thank you to our partner, mEducation Alliance, for helping to make this month-long event happen.
Watch the BELRAG website beginning August 30 for weekly webinar topics and the Zoom link. AND SEE BELOW .......
Dear Members and Friends of BELRAG,
In celebration of Basic Education and Literacy Month, we are excited to present our second September Webinar Series promoting BEL Around the World. We invite you to attend these daily webinars highlighting impactful and inspiring BEL projects. We aim to raise awareness about BEL initiatives and inspire you to support or replicate these beneficial projects for children and adults. Please share this email with your fellow Rotarians and network, and help us raise awareness about BEL initiatives.
Webinars will be presented almost daily at 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time (UTC -04h). Each webinar is only 30 minutes. Below is the schedule for Week 1, September 1-6. Each Friday in September, the following week's schedule will be posted on our website and emailed.
The Zoom link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/
You can find more information about each webinar here.
There are still dates available if you want to share your club or district's BEL project. Click here to register.
We look forward to seeing you in Zoom!
Yours in Rotary Service,
BELRAG Board of Directors
AN Enriching Learning Experience: The Basic Education and Literacy Symposium at the Rotary International Convention 2025 in Calgary
Dr. Anu Nar
ula, Director, Rotary Club of Canton, GA, USA
Rotarians, educators, and academicians from around the globe gathered in Calgary on June 20, 2025, for an enriching Basic Education and Literacy Symposium, a prelude to the Rotary International Convention. Hosted by the BELRAG, the event featured engaging presentations and discussions on critical topics like achieving global education through local action, mentoring at-risk youth, the power of literacy advocacy, and sustainable early childhood education initiatives.
Attendees gained valuable insights into impactful projects and strategies for enhancing literacy worldwide, including a poignant session on working with refugee communities and a deep dive into grant models for technology in education. Read more »
BELRAG was formed in 2011. We are a network of Rotarians and others passionate across the world who have a special interest in acting upon the mission and goals of Rotary International related to alleviating illiteracy; enhancing literacy teaching and learning globally, and helping to provide materials and equipment for literacy education at different levels. Like all Action Groups, BELRAG is an autonomous association of like-minded Rotarians, partners of Rotarians, and Rotaractors working in partnership with Clubs and Districts on basic education and literacy projects of mutual concern. Learn more about the history of BELRAG here.
BELRAG’s Mission and Goals
Increasing general awareness of the severity of illiteracy throughout the world; and its effect on the quality of the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations from generation to generation.
Increasing awareness among Rotarians, Rotary Clubs, and Rotary Districts of ways they can implement basic education and literacy projects that strengthen the capacity of communities to provide education and literacy to all.
Assisting Rotarians, Rotary Clubs, and Rotary Districts to increase the scale and effectiveness of their participation in the alleviation of illiteracy and its consequences - supporting the pursuit of the Object of Rotary by providing programs for both children and adults and reducing gender disparity in education.
Actively collaborate with Rotarians to establish partnerships for projects involving other areas of focus.
What Strategies does BELRAG use to achieve its Goals?
The following strategies are among those that are used to achieve BELRAG’s goals.
Publicize the extent and consequences of illiteracy in terms of human experience and welfare using a website, newsletters, pamphlets, diverse other publications, displays, and conferences;
Attract and involve Rotarians, their partners, and Rotaractors as BELRAG members;
Develop support systems for Rotary basic education and literacy activities, including the nomination of project advisers, and
Develop productive relationships with appropriate non-Rotary organizations and agencies, e.g. International Reading Association
Lots of Great Webinars - click Here
See all of their bulletins / Newsletters - click Here
Here is a link to their Project Directory - Want to help a project? Want to get help with a project?
The Basic Education and Literacy Rotary Action Group Expertise Teams are groups of knowledgeable members gathered around a BEL topic, who provide support and promotion of the goals of BELRAG and The Rotary Foundation.
To find our more , click Here
The Literacy Mission of Rotary: Why Educate Girls?
Around 129 million girls worldwide are out of school, with 60 million lacking access to basic education. According to UNESCO, two-thirds of the world’s 960 million illiterate people are women. In conflict-affected areas, girls are twice as likely to miss school, and 1 in 4 girls (ages 15–19) are neither in education nor employment, compared to 1 in 10 boys.
Read more about the key benefits of educating girls.
Interested in making a difference? Join the Girls’ Education Professional Team of Experts or learn more about this Rotary initiative by contacting Anu Narula, Girls’ Education Chair, Basic Education and Literacy Rotary Action Group Board of Directors, at: mylife2reinvented@gmail.com.