Welcome to Literacy Volunteers of
Chautauqua County

In an area where 1 out of 5 families does not speak any English in the home and 33% of residents age 18-24 have neither a high school diploma nor GED our mission is:

To promote and foster increased literacy in Chautauqua County, primarily through free, non-discriminatory, student-oriented, one-to-one volunteer tutoring of functionally illiterate and non-English speaking people.

30 million adults in the US are functionally illiterate meaning they can barely read write or understand written text. Locally 12% of Chautauqua County's population over the age of 16 is funtionally illiterate.