Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
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Local literacy groups benefit from
success of Tucson Festival of Books
Tucson News Now: 3.10.2017 by Janice
Yu
The Tucson
Festival of Books started with the mission of helping
literacy programs in Southern Arizona.
Over the past eight years,
the festival has grown tremendously, attracting more than 100,000 visitors
during the two-day period.
"When we started the
book festival, we did it with the purpose of helping literacy programs here in
Southern Arizona," said Brender Vinder, co-founder of the festival.
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Since its start, the
festival has donated close to $1.5 million to their beneficiaries.
"We have three
beneficiaries. Literacy Connects, The Reading Seed Program, and we have
the UA Bookstores does the community outreach
programs," Vinder said. WATCH 📺
Literacy group boosts
Marinette, Oconto counties
Green Bay Press Gazette: 3.10.2017 by Janet Glime
The Marinette &
Oconto Counties Literacy Council will be officially 5 years
old this summer. Why did we need a literacy council?
Well, reading is something
a person can take for granted; from reading a cereal box in the morning to
emails, texts, following a map, stopping for groceries and reading food labels
to helping with homework at night. Imagine if you could not read or speak the
native language and how difficult all of that would be. As a registered nurse
working in home health care, I had met with adults who had difficulty reading.
One man in particular who was seriously ill had mentioned that he would like to
learn to read before dying. He died shortly after that, and I was left
wondering where, if he had been healthy, I might have referred him for
assistance.
I went to Literacy Green
Bay and became a volunteer tutor. I reviewed a map of Wisconsin showing all the
literacy councils in the state and saw there wasn't any representing Marinette
or Oconto counties. I mentioned that this area needed one as well, and I was then
asked whether I thought I could get a quality board together "up
there". It was this question that got me riled enough to get our council
started. READ MORE @
3,034 hours of tutoring
helps change lives of women
Daily Republic: 3.12.2017 by Susan Hiland
Happy, proud students and
tutors filled the Solano County Event Center on Saturday for the annual
Literacy Celebration.
It was a little
different this year because one of those honored wasn’t a student but a tutor
who has put in 3,034 hours of her time to help others learn to read, write and
even speak English.
Carole O’Hara retired as a
teacher, soon lost her husband and found herself adrift for something to fill
her time. In 1998, she decided to volunteer for the Solano
County Library Literacy program.
“I needed to get out of the
house and saw an ad for the program,” she said. “I certainly knew I could do
that.”
Her first student was a
teenager from Nicaragua who came to America to escape the violence in her home
country. O’Hara soon picked up more students coming from all parts of the
world, and all eager to learn English for work, home life and just to better
themselves.
The Solano County Library
Literacy program has helped change thousands of people’s lives since it
began in 1994 by helping adults master a variety of skills.
The program works because
volunteers from all over Solano County come together to help adults who, for
whatever reason, never learned to read and write. READ MORE @
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