Literacy Can
Lift Lives Out Of Poverty
Highland
Community News: 3.06.2019 by James Folmer
Half-a-million
adults living in the San
Bernardino County can’t read.
That’s
according to county Librarian Michael Jimenez, who reports this disturbing
number in his application for a $10,000 federal Community Development Block
Grant from the city of Highland.
He cited the most recent U.S. National
Assessment Report, which says one in seven Americans have difficulty
reading anything more challenging than children’s picture book.
Jimenez
says adult illiteracy contributes to unemployment and incarceration.
Jestina
Sunwabe, a 25-year-old Highland resident, has been coming to the library since
September for reading lessons.
Her
tutor is Greg Vojtko, a former Press-Enterprise photographer and lover of
libraries. READ
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