
About 42% of adults in Maine are functioning at the lowest levels of
literacy.
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Millions
of today's employees lack basic skills inreading and writing. This
situation is costly to business because it leads to low productivity,
accidents, and lost management and supervisory time. Literacy
Volunteers provides unique and essential workplace realted instruction
for those most often neglected by corporate in-house programs and job
preparation classes.
One of the most common reasons that adults come to Literacy Volunteers for help is the desire to help their children succeed. Low-level literacy is self perpetuating. Parents who make a commitment to improving their literacy skills and share a love of reading with their children can break the cycle of low-level literacy in their families.
Virtually
every social problem has roots in a lack of education. Literacy
Volunteers strives to provide adults who have been bypassed by
traditional education with the literacy skills to become
self-sufficient, active participants in their communities.