Literacy Tutors Needed
Help Ease Local Poverty (HELP) is an organization composed of churches, civic groups, businesses, and social service agencies. Every week, HELP sponsors a “Wednesday Evening Supper” for the needy at Catholic Charities in Chicago (LaSalle and Superior Streets). After the meal, volunteer tutors sit down individually with the dinner guests to help them with their reading and writing skills. At this time, however, more literacy tutors are needed. These poor people desperately want to learn, yet they can not do so unless there are adequate volunteers willing to work with them. Can you help? This project only asks for about two hours of your time each week.
Literacy Chicago will provide training for any adult willing to spend a few hours each week assisting those who have not had the benefit of an education. Volunteers will be required to attend a special training program over the course of two consecutive Saturdays – April 5 and April 12, OR May 3 and May 10, 2008. The training will be held at Literacy Chicago, 17 N. State Street. If you are interested in sharing your time and helping others learn how to read, please telephone Cynthia Hirsch at (312) 235-5384 to register. The ability to read and write is a skill that can transform every aspect of a person’s life. Please consider helping with this program so others can have a better life.