Literacy:
Spanning the U.S.
Literacy
group that helped thousands now needs aid
Times
Herald-Record: 12.13.2014 by Richard J Bayne
The executive director at Literacy Orange figures the group has
helped some 10.000 people learn to read and write or manage their money better
in the 33 years it has been in existence.
But now, the organization itself
needs help. After eight years operating out of a city nursing home, Literacy
will lose that location by the end of January. The Promenade nursing home, at
70 Fulton St., needs the extra space, and has already granted one extension.
Now, it’s down to six weeks.
The literacy group's executive
director, Christine Rolando, is on a desperate search.
“I’m having nightmares,” Rolando
said. “I keep turning over rocks, looking for a new space. We’re a
not-for-profit. We don't have a lot of money.” She’s also reached out to Orange
County Executive Steve Neuhaus and Middletown Mayor Joe DeStefano, but no luck
so far. READ
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Holiday Fund: Unlocking stories
helps adults learn to read, write and find success
The
Almanac: 12.15.2014 by Mike Goodkind, Project Read volunteer.
Project
Read-Menlo Park literacy tutors are finding that the personal stories locked
inside their students can be sprung loose to become fascinating, valuable tools
in the quest for literacy.
For the 30th anniversary of the Menlo Park literacy program
next year, Program Director Roberta Roth expects Project Read to produce a book
of student stories that will inspire, educate, and keep alive the sagas that
had hitherto been untold to the community.
Project Read students speak more than a dozen native tongues
from all over the world but share a common goal of wishing to read and write English.
Margarita Joachin, with help from tutor Susan Speicher,
recently presented a short self-published book chronicling her journey from El
Salvador. The book was a gift for her daughter.
Carmen from Latin America recently wrote how she and her husband
worked two full-time jobs each for 13 years to buy a house. READ
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2015 marks Racine Literacy Council's
50th anniversary
Journal
Times: 12.18.2014 by Kay Gregor Racine Literacy Council
When Margaret McIntosh, founder of
the Racine Literacy Council, met
missionary Frank Laubach in 1965, he introduced her to a new method of teaching
reading to adults. Inspired, she began tutoring immigrant workers out of her
home in Racine. In 1965, the tutoring program was formally launched by McIntosh
and the United Church Women of Racine. A Journal Times article on May 26, 1965,
announced the need for volunteer tutors and an upcoming tutor training.
Twenty-eight tutors completed the training that spring. The Racine Literacy
Council is one of several literacy programs that began in the mid-’60s, when Frank
Laubach toured the country telling of his “each one, teach one” tutoring
program.
Primarily volunteer led, a major
grant in 1982 from the Johnson Wax fund enabled the adult literacy program to
hire its first executive director, Sandra Herre, and to open a Center at Cristo
Rey Church. The Racine Literacy Council became a Partner Provider of the United
Way of Racine County in 1986.
Since 1965, the Racine Literacy
Council Adult Literacy Program has provided one-to-one tutoring in Racine
County to thousands of adults wanting to learn English as a second language or
to improve basic literacy skills. The countywide program now includes group
tutoring and classes in computer literacy, citizenship, the written portion of
the driver’s license test, financial and health literacy. The program is
student-centered and stresses personal goals as they relate to learner’s
employment, family and self, and civic engagement or responsibilities. READ
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