East Los Angeles Literacy Project East LA Project: is a program that provides ESL as a second language, and Spanish literacy classes beginning with their native language (for adults) at no charge. A coordinator and 2 volunteers run this program. As part of our civic engagement approach we teach our students their rights here in the United States, in a way that they learn the language of this state to help them get better jobs, and know to be aware of issues which impact them and how to solve those issues on their own communities. Also if they are exploited, and what is that they can do to defend themselves. Our mission is to expand the classes and the classes and provide more places, hours, and days to bring in more students and volunteers, so we can make this program grow at its best for the community. The project is raising funds to be able to provide the right materials for the students since the classes are free. As an annual holiday we have our own big celebration for this project. This event is known as the International Literacy Day, which is celebrated around the world to mark all world wide efforts to eradicate illiteracy. We will Celebrate this world event on September 9th, 2006. Volunteers We provide workshops every 3 to 4 months for volunteers interested in teaching English or literacy to adults. After the workshop we give them sessions of how the program works, meanwhile the volunteers involve themselves in teaching English or Spanish Literacy to the adult students. We are also looking for volunteers who would like to do childcare during the hours of the classes so the students that have children can assist and participate at the classes without having trouble with their kids. During the childcare we would like for the toddlers enjoy the hours of the classes, so we would like for children to be busy doing arts and crafts. International Literacy Day: Every year we celebrate International Literacy Day! We will post this years event once is planned! |
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| No one educates anyone, and nobody is self educated; all of us learn from each other, mediated by the world we live in." Paulo Freire |
| Class Location Classes are given at the: Benjamin Franklin Library 2200 E. 1st St. Los Angeles CA 90033 |
| Gabriela Perez /East L.A coordinator Tel: 213. 252. 2952 Fax #. 213. 252. 2953 E-mail: gaby@idepsca.org |
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| Our Next volunteer workshop is May 19th, 2007 10:00 Am - 2:00 PM Join us! 213-252-2952 Download Flyer |