The Monarch Schools

One of our own, Michelle Candland, current president of  the San Diego Rotary Club, was chosen as a "Woman of Action" for Rotary Day at the White House.  She was one of 10 women selected from across the United States for her sustained work in the community. 

As a brand new Rotarian, in 1999, she went to visit a one room center for homeless and at-risk kids, established by the San Diego County.  She thought she was volunteering to be a tutor or a mentor.  When she left the meeting, she was tasked with finding a new location for the tiny school, later to be known as Monarch School.  She located a building, which had been a cinderblock cabinet shop,  that would work.