Take a chance and support literacy!
Feeling lucky? Then buy a raffle ticket -- or a couple of dozen -- and maybe you'll win a basket that's been jam-packed with great stuff. Learn more about what you can win. And best of all, your donations go to help support literacy in Metrowest. Pictured at left: "Relax with wine and chocolate," with three delicious bottles of wine and lots of wonderful, high-end chocolate. (You must be 21 or older to win this basket.) And there are tons of other great prizes, including a KitchenAid mixer, Keurig coffee maker, Kindle e-reader, Bose SoundDock and many more. The drawing for all baskets will be held in the Framingham Public Library on Friday, June 1. Winners need not be present to win. Good luck!
Become a champion for literacy
Imagine your life without the written word. How would you go grocery shopping, enjoy a great book on the beach, read to your kids or help them with their homework? How would you work? What types of jobs would be available to you? What would your life be like with these limitations?
Sadly, over a million adults in Massachusetts lack high-school-level reading and writing skills. Some of these are native English speakers; others are immigrants who are struggling to start their lives anew here in this country. And the undisputed fact is that without basic literacy skills, adults are more likely to be poor, without any real prospect of moving up the economic ladder. Their children are likely to suffer a similar fate, because the best indicator of a child's success in school is the educational background of the parents.
Read on to learn more about the problem, Literacy Unlimited's program to help adult learners here in Metrowest and what you can do to help support LU's efforts.
Read on to learn more about the problem, Literacy Unlimited's program to help adult learners here in Metrowest and what you can do to help support LU's efforts.
