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Do you need Help with Reading?
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WE MAKE A
DIFFERENCE!
Welcome to Literacy Volunteers! We are here to help
you learn to read or learn to speak, read, and write
in English. Literacy Volunteers of
Burlington County (LVBC)
is a non-profit organization established in 1982.
The central purpose and role of LVBC is to increase
the basic literacy skills for adults.
What
Literacy Volunteers of Burlington County does:
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Trains volunteers
to be tutors |
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Matches
volunteers with literacy-needy adults |
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Provides
continuous support for tutor-student matches |
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Reaches out to the
Burlington County
community
to ensure everyone understands the vital
importance of literacy
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Did
you know?
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Burlington
County has approximately 30,000 adults
lacking basic literacy skills
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Almost 1
million adults in New Jersey do not have a
high school diploma |
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The single
most significant predictor of a child’s
literacy is his mother’s literacy level
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91 million
people in the U.S. don’t know how to read or
write |
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51% of
adults over the age of 25 have literacy
problems severe enough to affect job
performance, family life, and community
participation.
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