Volunteers Honored by White House

Following are the people and organizations that have most recently been named to receive President Clinton’s Daily Points of Light Award.

The awards, which are given to those who have done exemplary volunteer work, take their name from President Bush’s description of people who do community service as “points of light.” Some 1,020 people received the honor when Mr. Bush was in office.

The Points of Light Foundation, a Washington charity, assists the President in making the choices and carrying out the award program. More information about the award winners and the program is available at the foundation’s World-Wide Web site, http://pointsoflight.org, or by contacting the foundation at 1400 I Street, N.W., Suite 800, Washington 20005; (202) 729-8184.

The recipients:

1340. Books for the Barrios, Walnut Creek, Cal., which collects and distributes children’s books and educational materials to impoverished schools in the Philippines, with donations from American publishers and children.

1341. Crayons to Computers, Cincinnati, which gives supplies donated by businesses to teachers at schools in poor neighborhoods.

1342. World T.E.A.M. Sports: The Vietnam Challenge, Charlotte, N.C., which organized a 1,200-mile bicycle ride from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to bring together Americans and Vietnamese in an attempt to heal lingering enmity stemming from the Vietnam War.

1343. Career Closet of Santa Clara County, San Jose, Cal., which provides professional wardrobes to poor women who have completed job-training programs.

1344. General Electric Industrial Systems Mentors, Salem, Va., an employee-run program that provides guidance to adolescents in need of role models. Paired by interests, the mentors and students talk and do school work or computer projects together.

1345. Denise Haala, Prospect Heights, Ill., who has volunteered for four years with Partners Assisting Learning in the Schools, an after-school tutoring program, and who started the Mac n’ Math program to improve students’ mathematical skills and confidence.

1346. The Salvation Army Gateway Service Center, Philadelphia, through which volunteers from local health-care clinics provide homeless people with services to improve their physical and emotional health; the center also provides emergency food, shelter, and shower and laundry facilities.

1347. Jeannette Graves, New York, a resident of Co-op City, a group of 35 high-rise buildings in the Bronx, who organizes volunteers to assist frail elderly residents through the Interfaith Caregivers Project and to help young children learn to read through the “Everybody Wins” program.