- "Celebrating February Book Sales"(4 days)
- "Celebrating February Book Sales"(4 days)
- " Celebrating February Book Sales"(18 days)
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.
The agency is pleased to have the following individuals serving on the 2009 - 2010 Board of Directors:
Amanda Schwert-Walden, Executive Director Dr. Minda Rae Amiran, President
Gerry Rocque, Vice President Barbara Yochym, Treasurer
Margo Perello, Secretary Judge Walter Drag
Carter Rowland Kathy Brown
Chris Schaeffer Dr. Moon Ro
Prudencio Ortiz
On September 23, 2009 we lost our long time board member and former treasurer, John Formanowicz after a long battle with cancer. His presence will be missed.
Literacy Vounteers of Chautauqua County made application for re-accreditation this fall. In October, we were notified by ProLiteracy that our organization had successfully completed the recreditation process.
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