Return-Path: <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5/980425bjb) with SMTP id RAA01727; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 17:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.16.19981017172049.286f43f6@toad.net> Errors-To: azaheer@famlit.org Reply-To: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: Chris <copple@toad.net> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-family@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-FAMILY:1730] X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (16) Hello; I'm Christopher Copple and I help administer the Greater Laurel Literacy Center. We are a not-for profit (501(c)3) corporation formed in December of 1997. We serve the City of Laurel, Maryland, and it's environs - approximately a 5-8 mile radius from the city limits, and attempt to leverage the efforts of the literacy councils of Anne Arundel, Montgomery, and Prince Georges counties, and other organizations. Our primary mission is to pair trained volunteer tutors with adult (16years or older) students who need to learn to read. It is our goal to provide all tutoring, tutor training, and educational materials free of charge - to both tutor and student. We are affiliated with Laubach Literacy, but use a variety of educational materials. Currently, we support 18 students paired with 17 tutors, and are currently making arrangements to have four more tutors trained by the end of the month. We are also attempting to develop a cadre of tutors to take English as a Second Language training to help other local organztions teach English literacy skills to non-native speakers. In conjuncton with this, we would like to form an English Cionversation Club - a forum for those learning English to gather and practice their seaking skills- , and a schools program to encourage middle and high school students to help younger students with their literacy skills, and to enhance the rading literacy programs in local pre-schools. Our ultimate goal is to leverage our ESL and schools programs to effect famil
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