September 24 – September 30, 2017 is National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week. Read Mayor Levar Stoney’s Proclamation below.
Transcript:
WHEREAS, The Reading and Education for Adult Development (READ) Center is a community-based nonprofit organization providing educational opportunities to adults with low-level reading and communication skills; and
WHEREAS, READ was founded as the Literacy Council of Metropolitan Richmond in 1982 by Altrusa International Richmond, Inc., a professional women’s business service club and became a 501(c)(3) organization in 1984; and
WHEREAS, in the City of Richmond, 1 in 6 adults lacks the literacy skills to read a bus schedule, fill out a job application or help their children with homework; and
WHEREAS, The READ Center’s mission is to help adults with low-level literacy develop basic reading and communication skills so they can fulfill their roles as positive citizens and workers; and
WHEREAS, this is accomplished by providing classroom instruction, one-to-one tutoring, and adult literacy curriculum and educational resources to support students; and
WHEREAS, new this year, READ has expanded its definition of literacy to include basic math and digital competency, so these skills will be incorporated to our curriculum for the first time;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, Levar M. Stoney, Mayor of the City of Richmond, Virginia do hereby proclaim September 24 – September 30, 2017 as
“National Adult Education and Family Literacy Week”
in the City of Richmond and want to increase public awareness about the need and value of adult education and family literacy in order to leverage resources to support access to basic education programs for the 36 million U.S. adults with low literacy skills.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed, the seal of the City of Richmond, this 24th day of September, 2017.
Levar M. Stoney, Mayor, City of Richmond
