This month we a featuring a remarkable project championed by our own District 5790 Denton Rotary Club. In 2023, the Rotary Club of Denton launched a global grant to create a center for children with autism in Paraiso, Costa Rica. This grant covered thirteen scholarships for Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) training, which were offered to Special Education teachers and medical professionals who work with children struggling with behavior disorders. Together with Denton Rotary Club, five clubs in the district pledged their DDF for this project, and members from these clubs traveled to Costa Rica in August this year to refurbish buildings at the Paraiso Autism Center.
The Rotary organization received an overwhelming number of applicants for these scholarships and is now looking into using a Vocational Training Team (VTT) grant to cover the cost of training a wider group of candidates.