Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Craven Literacy Council expands services in new office

This literacy council has new equipment and space and is teaching more people to read English. But they always need more people, money, staff, offices. - - Donna Poisl

Laura Oleniacz, Sun Journal Staff

Craven Literacy Council staff tell of one of their success stories: A man who learned to read well enough to take his wife’s grocery list to the store to buy all of the items on the handwritten paper.

The council’s volunteers helped that man and 224 others work on basic literacy skills in Craven, Jones and Pamlico counties last year, and they hope to help even more this year since they moved to a larger office last week.
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