Literacy: Spanning the U.S.
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Lee
County Literacy Coalition helps adult learners
Opelika-Auburn News: 12.17.2017 by Kara Coleman
Someone
reading this story might take for granted his or her basic literacy skills and
the ability to read it. Someone else trying to read this story might need your
help.
The
Lee County Literacy Coalition provides
adults with one-on-one tutoring in basic literacy, reading, writing and math.
“Usually,
we ask tutors and their students to meet once a week, for about an hour or an
hour-and-a-half,” Executive Director Stacie Money said. “Once they’re paired
up, they interact with each other and sort of set and adjust their schedules.
Sometimes, an hour’s not long enough.”
The
organization has a “great group of volunteers,” she added, many of whom are on
a list of tutors waiting to be paired with students.
But
individual tutoring isn’t all the LCLC does, and there are multiple volunteer
opportunities available with the organization.
“What
we are needing right now are people to work in our financial literacy workshop,
which is twice a month,” Money said. READ MORE >>
Schaumburg
Library offers literacy, citizenship classes
Daily Herald: 12.18.2017 by Susan Miura, Schaumburg Township
District Library
"Reading
is the basic tool in the living of a good life," said author and educator
Mortimer Adler.
And,
yet, statistics collected by the American Community Survey indicate that more
than 2 million Illinois residents (16.6 percent) need adult literacy and/or
English language instruction. If you know any who fit this category, whether
they were U.S. born or immigrated to our country, consider sharing the
following information about literacy classes at the Schaumburg Township District Library.
And
if you've got some time on your hands, think about volunteering as a reading
tutor. Imagine using a couple of hours each week to change the trajectory of a
person's life.
The
library's Read to Learn classes will take place from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Mondays, Jan. 22 to April 23, in the Rasmussen Room, and 9 a.m. to noon
Wednesdays, Jan. 24 through April 18, in the Adult Classroom. READ MORE >>
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United
Way, Family Resource Center & Literacy Council help refugees
Sheboygan Press: 12.18.2017 by Carol Myers
“Imagine
there’s no countries.”
Your
country has become enmeshed in war and you are forced to leave and become a
refugee. Your children are born in a refugee camp and never know their home
country. You go through a years-long vetting process to immigrate to a new
country you know little about. None of your family members speak the official
language of your new country.
“Imagine
no possessions.” You arrive in your new country with only a suitcase for each
family member. You are placed in an apartment with furniture and have these
strange appliances called a stove and refrigerator you’ve never used before.
The food here is totally alien to what you’re used to eating. Your family is
mandated to become self-sustaining in your new homeland after just six months,
so your husband goes to school to take language classes, but you, the mother,
stay home to take care of the children.
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The
above scenario is a similar experience many new Burmese, Somalian and Syrian
refugees in Sheboygan County face. Concerned for the refugee mothers who
urgently need to learn English, a new initiative was born thanks to
collaboration between the Literacy Council of Sheboygan County,
First Congregational Church UCC Sheboygan, and Refugee Support Community
Sheboygan. READ MORE >>
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