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Dear friends of the Pilot Club of
Sayville,
The Pilot Club of Sayville is proud to announce that in April of
this year, our club expanded the presence of Pilot International
on Long Island by sponsoring the formation of a new Pilot Club. There
are now four Pilot Clubs on Long Island: the Pilot Club of Babylon,
the Pilot Club of Patchogue, the Pilot Club of Sayville, and the new
club, the Pilot Club of Greater Long Island, each serving its own
geographical area.
The Pilot Club of Sayville, a community service organization, has
served the Sayville and neighboring areas for the past thirty-five
years. We remain dedicated to our mission of helping those in need and
improving the quality of life for those affected by brain-related
disorders through hands-on and educational projects, financial
assistance and grants and scholarships. We will continue to do so in
this community under our traditional name of the Pilot Club of
Sayville.
We want you to know that your past support, without which we could not
have done our work, is greatly appreciated. We are the only Pilot Club
exclusively serving this area and we hope we can rely on your
continuing support for all our future endeavors. |
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The Pilot Club of Sayville is a
division of Pilot International, a global volunteer, civic service
organization with approximately 25,000 adult and youth members.
Our goal is to help those in need and to improve the quality of life
in our community and communities around the world. Pilot’s main focus
is working with people affected by brain disorders and disabilities
and the prevention of traumatic brain injuries.
The Pilot Club of Sayville has received a $1,500.00 matching grant
from the Pilot International Foundation to help fund (in cooperation
with another community organization) the purchase and installation of
a poured rubber surface for an existing playground area at Angela’s
House II, a home that specializes in caring for children with severe
medical and physical conditions that require life-sustaining
technology. The special surface will permit the wheel chair-bound
children access to the existing wheel chair swing and hammock, which
is not now accessible to wheel chairs.
Volunteer members of the Pilot Club of Sayville will initiate a
supper-time reading program for the children. This will occupy and
stimulate the children as they wait for their turns to be individually
fed by staff members. The children will benefit from the mental
stimulation, social-interaction, education and acceptance provided by
our member-readers and this, in turn, will encourage improved
interactive and conversational skills, and ego enhancement.
In the past, through another matching grant from the Pilot
International Foundation, the Pilot Club of Sayville was able to
donate a wheel chair swing for Angela’s House I. |
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