Be a literacy tutor

Your series on Immigrants in Sussex County rang a bell with our organization, Literacy Volunteers of Sussex County. We provide free tutoring in English to adults. Currently, three-fourths of our students are foreign-born (immigrants). We help them make the transition from feeling lost to feeling at home through mastering English. This makes all the difference in the world: it is the key to getting a job, communicating with doctors and teachers, interacting with the rest of the community.

This tutoring is done by volunteers.We train these volunteers — they do not have to be teachers (in fact, most are not). They find their work with new arrivals both fascinating and rewarding.

Literacy Volunteers is about to train a new group of tutors. These volunteers will tutor both foreign-born and U.S.-born adults. An orientation session, which provides insight into the tutoring process, will take place at the Sparta United Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 16. That will be followed by six Wednesday-evening training sessions.

source: www.strausnews.com/articles/2009/09/02/sparta_independent/opinion/4.txt