Literacy Connection to hold volunteer open house

If you are interested in helping someone change their life and become more independent, consider becoming a volunteer tutor for The Literacy Connection. Dozens of adults are waiting right now for a tutor to help them learn English or improve their reading and writing skills.

The Literacy Connection will be holding a free orientation session from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 9 at the Gail Borden Public Library, second floor Conference Room, 270 N. Grove Ave., in Elgin. Training workshops will follow from 6 to 9 p.m. July 15, 17, 22, 24, 29 and 30 at the same location. Volunteers can make up missed sessions during a later training series.

Once trained, tutors are matched with an adult student for tutoring an hour or two a week, at a time and place of their choice.

Volunteers are needed to tutor in both Basic Reading and English as a Second Language. No special education is required. You do not have to know a foreign language. If you can read, write, and converse in English, a Literacy Connection student needs you

For more information, contact The Literacy Connection at (847) 742-6565, email info@elginliteracy.org, visit Web site at www.elginliteracy.org or attend the July 9 orientation.

The Literacy Connection, an affiliate of ProLiteracy America, serves adults and young children in 16 communities in the northwest suburbs: Algonquin, Bartlett, Carpentersville, Cary, Elgin, South Elgin, East Dundee, West Dundee, Gilberts, Hanover Park, Hampshire, Hoffman Estates, Huntley, Lake in the Hills, Streamwood, and Schaumburg. Programs include English as a Second Language, Basic Reading, Family Literacy, Workplace Literacy, and Summer Youth Tutoring.