Baton Rouge, La. - Fatemeh
Malekian, Professor of food science and nutrition at the Southern University
Agricultural Research and Extension Center, and member of the Baton Rouge Early
Risers Kiwanis club, serves as faculty advisor to the Key Club at the Southern University
Laboratory (SU Lab) School. Dr. Malekian
has served in different capacities including president, lieutenant governor,
and Key Club adviser thus far.
After
the historic flood of 2016 in Louisiana, a number of families at Southern
University Lab School lost everything. The Baton Rouge Early Risers Kiwanis Club with Malekian’s leadership,
partnered with the PTO/Kitten Club of SU Lab to write a Disaster Relief
grant to assist the families impacted by the flood. The funds received from Kiwanis
International will help in creating a
service project to meet the needs of North Baton Rouge residents in their
recovery efforts.
On October 28, during the Southern University Lab School
homecoming football game, Dr. Fatemeh Malekian and two other members of the of
the Kiwanis Club, Morgan Watson and
Raymond Locket, presented a check in the amount of
$4,910.00 to the SU Lab
School Foundation. This fund will be
used to replace necessary items for students, and assist the Key Club members
in conducting service projects wherever necessary in the community around the
campus.
“I am very proud to be able to assist our own Southern
University Lab School students. They are
a part our campus family, our future students at Southern University and future
leaders,” said Fatemeh.
Kiwanis is a global service organization dedicated to
improving the world one child and one community at a time. The Baton Rouge Early Risers Club is one of
the 18 clubs in the Baton Rouge area.
Its members are Southern University faculty, alumni, staff, students and
surrounding community members. The goal
of the Baton Rouge Early Riser Club is to serve communities surrounding the
Southern University Campus.
Key Club is an international service
leadership organization for teens, which teaches leadership through service to
others.
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