State Honors Bethel Grove Extension Club

HOT SPRINGS — Bethel Grove Extension Homemakers has earned state recognition for a project to help an orphanage in Malawi, Africa.

Bethel Grove is among 111 clubs and county councils being honored June 7 during the awards luncheon at the annual Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council state meeting at the Hot Springs Convention Center. The state council is a volunteer organization associated with the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service.

Serendipity 59ers Extension Homemakers Club, another Washington County extension club, also will receive recognition at the state meeting.

The clubs are being recognized for their outstanding contributions to their communities. They are state project book winners.

Those being honored from Washington County and their projects are:

Bethel Grove — Bethel Grove Extension Homemakers were asked to go to Ester’s House orphanage in Malawi, Africa, to teach sewing skills to five single mothers from different villages and the in-house seamstress. Two members agreed to go. Other members cut out patterns and made a “how-to” video. The club members volunteered 671 hours and with outside donations spent $5,100 on machines and supplies needed for the start of this program and air fare for two.

Serendipity 59ers Extension Homemakers Club — The Springdale Public Schools Pre-K Program notified the club that they had 1,030 sheets for little cots that were wearing out. The Serendipity 59ers Extension Homemakers Club accepted the challenge. Members made 36 sheets and will make more.

To learn more about Extension Homemakers, contact your local Cooperative Extension Service agent or visit https://www. uaex.edu/health-living/ extension-homemakers/.