One of the reasons I started this blog was to learn more about the issues that I highlight and the organizations who work in these areas. This week, I learned about ProLiteracy, an advocacy organization that looks at the problem of adult illiteracy on an international scale as well as locally and nationally. Additionally, ProLiteracy focuses on the important but often overlooked connections between literacy and poverty, health, and violence.
Among ProLiteracy's programs are two book funds to provide course books to adult literacy programs, the National Book Fund, and the Charles Evans Book Fund (this fund supporting specifically those programs that serve homeless adults).
ProLiteracy's website has much more valuable information about what they do and how you can advocate for the needs of adult learners.
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