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Imagine if you couldn’t read this.
Or a restaurant menu.
Or your favorite book.

That’s life for the 1 in 4 adults in Central Florida who reads at or below a 5th grade level. For them, simple, everyday tasks present real problems. Reading product labels, following street signs or filling out job applications can be difficult and frustrating. Families suffer, too. Parents with low literacy skills have trouble reading to their children. Many don’t even try. Sadly, the literacy levels of children are strongly linked to the educational levels of their parents.

Today’s definition of literacy is “the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society,” according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Seeing the need for adult education to achieve literacy in the community, our founders began the Adult Literacy League in 1968. Since then, we have grown to provide Adult Basic Education and English for Speakers of Other Languages classes, GED preparation and one-on-one volunteer tutoring to about 2,000 students a year.

But we don’t work without the support of our awesome volunteers, friends, supporters and donors. Please consider making a gift to build a literate community with us today.

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