• 5th year
  
• 6 dogs in the program
  
• 8 Berkeley County schools - Berkeley Intermediate, Whitesville Elementary, AIMS, Devon Forest, Bonner,
• St. Stephen Elementary, JK Gourdin and Cross Elementary
  
• 1 Dorchester County school - Pinewood Preparatory
  
• 1,400 plus students
  
• 69 teachers

Accomplishments in 2005-2006

• 4th year
• 6 dogs in the program
  
• 4 Berkeley County schools - Berkeley Intermediate, Whitesville Elementary, AIMS and Devon Forest
  
• 1 Dorchester County school - Pinewood Preparatory
  
• 1,300 students
  
• 58 teachers
  
• four levels of prizes
  
• 1st level ice-cream -served 2,581 bowls
  
• 2nd level - choice of a book - 832 books
  
• 3rd level - choice of a RRP logo item (t-shirt, notebook, coin, tote bag, hat & umbrella) - 251 prizes
  
• 4th level - choice of a WEZL item - 83 prizes
  
• During the 2005-2006 a teacher could earn a RRP logo item if their class had 100% participation at the 1st level. 42 prizes were given to teachers.
  
• An additional 2,049 books were given to students due to the success of book drives at several schools and Alcoa.
  
• Year-end programs - 13 bicycles given away; 8 passes to Cypress Gardens; 14 passes to Carowinds; along with numerous other items
  
• 3,997 raffle chances earned toward the year-end prizes (each chance equaled 10 accelerated reading points)
  
• 51,054 accelerated reading points earned
  
• Several thousand books have been given to head start programs, middle and high school students, mission trips to Katrina victims, Jamaica, Honduras and India

Media Attention Received

• School newsletters
  
• Berkeley Independent
  
• Goose Creek Gazette
  
• Berkeley Electric Coop's Living Magazine
  
• Santee Cooper's Currently
  
• Channel Four
  
• Channel Five
  
• Alcoa's newsletter
  
• Lowcountry Live on Channel Four
  
• Post and Courier
  
• Southeastern Therapy Animal Resources' newsletter

 

Awards Received

• Youngest member Jeremiah Dye received the Channel Four and Berkeley Electric Coop Student of the Month Award. He is the 9th student in the Tri-county area to receive this award
  
• Marietta Hicks received the Channel Five - Golden Apple Award, Berkeley County School District Volunteer Award and the 2006 Silver Volunteer Award from the SC Dept. of Education

Additional Information

• Received the 501 C 3 dated back to June 17, 2005
  
• Board of directors
  
• Advisory board made up of dog handlers and teachers
  
• Presentation given to a class at the College of Charleston on how therapy dogs are motivating students to read in Berkeley County
  
• Numerous people involved in volunteering their time and resources
  
• Audit of the June 30, 2006, financial statements which is available upon request
  
• RRP brochure which list all of the 2005-2006 sponsors