“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
- Nelson Mandela
The East Texas Literacy Council served 444 adult students last year with 9,849 hours of instruction!
The 2024 East Texas Literacy Symposium will be held on Saturday, March 2nd , 2024, from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, in the Longview University Center at UT Tyler. This symposium is offered free of charge to educators, volunteer tutors, ESL teachers, and other library and nonprofit professionals who work in the fields of adult and family literacy. www.literacytexas.org/EastTX
The ETLC’s 33rd year annual fundraiser, the “BEE for Literacy!,” will be held in June of 2024 at Pine Tree Junior High Cafeteria. Our “teams” will be competing for the coveted title! Congratulations to last year’s winner Eastman Chemical. To participate in the BEE for Literacy! fundraiser or to see our sponsors, please visit the BEE page here on our website. You may also donate at http://bee-for-literacy.cheddarup.com.
Grab some friends and join us for a light supper and fun Scrabble games. You’ll compete as a team (8 per team) against other teams to amass the most word points in three short rounds. Play to win or just for the fun of it. Our event will be Tuesday, October 24th at 6:00pm.
“I am glad that you have this kind of program to help us. All the teachers I have known have a lot of patience for me and my classmates, and always help encourage us to achieve our goals. I want to say ‘Thank You’ for all the lessons you taught me and I thank God for all the volunteers and teachers that have patience and gave us confidence. Thank you for everything. I am so grateful. God bless you.”
Adult education is in critical need for services. At the present levels of public funding, less than 10 percent of adults in need are receiving services in the state of Texas. Your support helps provide opportunities for adults in Gregg County to develop basic literacy skills to function successfully in our community.
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