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CORINNE GOODWIN, OF LEHIGH VALLEY RENAISSANCE, AND JILL LONG, OF BETHLEHEM ROTARY CLUB, RECEIVE 2020 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN\u2019S DAY CELEBRATION AWARD FROM EMMAUS ROTARY CLUB.<\/strong><\/p>\n EMMAUS, PA (March 9, 2021) \u2013 Prabha Sinha and Linda Mayger will receive the International Women\u2019s Day Awards from Emmaus Rotary Club on Thursday March 11, 2021 from 7:30-8:30am at Brookside Country Club of Allentown, 901 Willow Lane, Macungie, PA.<\/p>\n Sinha is being honored for her work helping students in the Lehigh Valley who have the greatest needs through yoga and meditation. Mayger is being honored for her work mainly in basic education and literacy.<\/p>\n When Prabha\u2019s only child her son Pratyush passed away in his twenties her grief was so deep and she used yoga to help her through each day.\u00a0 Pratyush was a young man who always talked of wanting to make the world a better place for those less fortunate.\u00a0 He was greatly effected by what he saw as inequalities in the world.<\/p>\n Prabha moved back to the Lehigh Valley as that is where Pratyush spent most of his life growing up. It is in the Lehigh Valley that she wanted to help make it better for younger children to deal with the pressures facing them.\u00a0 She started small with an after school program in an Allentown elementary school.\u00a0Her thought was those children had the greatest needs.\u00a0 From that one school it has grown to all the Allentown elementary schools as well as middle and high schools.\u00a0 Jefferson School in Emmaus has approached her.<\/p>\n Prabha started the foundation with her husband in 2013 providing mindfulness and yoga interventions in schools and communities.\u00a0 In 2018-19 they reached 10,000 students in the Lehigh Valley providing mindfulness and yoga as a preemptive tool to deal with social and economic pressures.<\/p>\n Pat Browne helped them secure a $500,000 grant to start a pilot program in grades 1-12 in the Allentown School District called Trauma Informed Appropriate Education.\u00a0 The program builds through mindfulness: self-awareness management, emotional regulations and compassion, social awareness and relationship skills and responsible decision making.\u00a0 They believe children are the most venerable members of the community.\u00a0 It takes a village to raise a child and they are part of the village joining forces for a collective impact.<\/p>\n The website is www.pratyushsinhafoundation.org<\/a><\/p>\n She has been involved with two major projects:<\/p>\n (1) She organized the planting of a pollinator garden at the Environmental Education Center at the Saucon Valley School district. When she was the chair of the Saucon Valley Foundation for Educational Innovation, Linda was instrumental building the Environmental Education Center, by writing grants and planning fundraising projects that raised over $250,000.<\/p>\n (2) Linda has been one of the organizers of Saucon Valley’s book fairy project for the past four years. The project sends volunteers to read to the first graders in the Bethlehem Area School District Title 1 elementary schools twice per year and gives them books to take home.<\/p>\n About International Women\u2019s Day<\/strong><\/p>\n “International Women’s Day\u201d is a globally united moment for women across countries to come together in hope and action.\u00a0 Started in the early 1900’s, the almighty and tenacious Suffragettes forged purposeful action for equality. \u00a0It was the Suffragettes who started International Women’s Day, with the first officially named “international Women’s Day” event held in 1911.\u00a0 To this day, International Women’s Day continues to be a powerful platform globally that unifies tenacity and drives action for gender parity, while celebrating the social, cultural, economic and political achievements of women and it is celebrated on March 8.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n About Rotary International, Rotary District 7430 and Emmaus Rotary Club<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Rotary International<\/strong> brings together a global network of volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world\u2019s most pressing humanitarian challenges. Rotary connects 1.2 million members of more than 35,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. Their work improves lives at both the local and international levels, from helping families in need in their own communities to working toward a polio-free world. Visit\u00a0Rotary.org<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0endpolio.org<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for more about Rotary and its efforts to eradicate polio.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" CORINNE GOODWIN, OF LEHIGH VALLEY RENAISSANCE, AND JILL LONG, OF BETHLEHEM ROTARY CLUB, RECEIVE 2020 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN\u2019S DAY CELEBRATION AWARD FROM EMMAUS ROTARY CLUB. EMMAUS, PA (March 9, 2021) … Continue reading Emmaus Rotary Club Celebrates International Women’s Day<\/span>
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