Give The Gift Of Literacy
— Become A Reading Hero
Redlands
Community News: 7.19.2019 by Jan Fowler
Can
you imagine for a minute what it must feel like to receive a beautiful birthday
or holiday card and not be able to read it? Or to have children or
grandchildren and not be able to help them with homework?
Or
perhaps be unable to advance to a job in a warehouse because you can’t read the
boxes?
Not
only is our ability to read crucial to our independence and overall self-image,
but has a profound impact on our ability to get a job and earn a living.
It
may come as a shock to you, as it did me, that there are an estimated 32
million adults throughout the country who go through the motions of daily
living hiding the fact that they can’t read. And while 32 million people need
literacy help, only 3 million ever get it.
Locally,
however, an Adult Literacy program
came about at A.K. Smiley Public Library in 2010 under the guidance of Trudy
Waldron and Katherine Gifford to help meet the needs of men and women in our
town who are unable to read. READ
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