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Woman Earns ‘Lifetime Achievement’ Award From Literacy Group
Millburn Patch: 5.08.2017 by Eric Kiefer
Adult
literacy provider Literacy NJ recently honored Millburn
resident Perrine Robinson-Geller with its 2017 Harry van Houten Award for
Lifetime Achievement during its annual Literacy for Life Conference at Mercer
County College.
Here’s
why Robinson-Geller deserved the award, Literacy NJ stated:
“Perrine
Robinson-Geller is a devoted advocate of adult literacy services. She joined
the board of Literacy Volunteers of New Jersey in 2010 and has generously
shared her expertise and her time with the Literacy NJ network.
“Perrine
served two terms as board president and provided invaluable leadership as the
organization began to explore a merger with its affiliates. Perrine never lost
sight of the primary goal of expanding and improving services for low literate
adults. After the merger, Perrine served as a member of the founding board of
Literacy NJ and then as its first board president. READ MORE @
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Temple Literacy Council receives grant
Temple Daily Telegram: 5.19.2017
Dollar General announced awarding a grant worth $1,575
to the Temple Literacy Council.
Through the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, the
company will allocate more than $530,000 to Texas nonprofit organizations,
libraries and schools this year.
Don Stills, executive director for the Temple Literacy
Council, said the grant will help cover operating expenses for the
organization.
“We will be able to buy materials, books and workbooks
for our students and volunteers with this grant,” Stills said.
The Temple Literacy Council was established in 1988 to
teach reading and English as a second language to adults. READ MORE@
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Literacy Programs Help Adults Improve Reading, Writing
Skills
WUNC: 5.23.2017 by Naomi Prioleau 📻
Every Monday and Wednesday for the past year, Dorise
Adams and Mary Anne Carr have met in a classroom at United Methodist Church to
achieve their singular goal: to receive their high school diplomas.
To achieve that goal, the two decided to take courses
to improve their reading skills with Reading
Connections.
Reading Connections is a nonprofit organization that
helps adults over the age of 18 enhance their reading, writing and math skills.
Carr and Adams have formed a sisterhood.
“We're pulling each other and we're going to keep
pulling each other,” Carr said. “We don't dot every I or cross every T, but we're
striving to be the best that we can be.”
Adams and Carr are both in their late 50s. Neither of
them could read well and decided if they wanted to truly succeed in life, they
needed to be better at reading. LISTEN
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