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Welcome to the Literacy Volunteers website
Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo & Erie County (LV/BEC) is the region's sole provider of free, one-on-one adult literacy services. Our mission and commitment is to improve the well being of families in Buffalo and Erie County by providing reading, English language learning and literacy services to anyone wishing to improve their literacy skills. We achieve this through recruiting, training and supporting a dedicated group of volunteers who work one-on-one with adults or children as tutors and mentors. Literacy Volunteers changes lives, word by word.

Learn how you can become a student (click here).
Learn how you can become a volunteer tutor (click here).

The Latest Literacy News:

March 11, 2009
Literacy Volunteers Asks You To Give Back To Your Community: Teach Someone To Read
Read the full story, click here.

Feb. 11, 2009 - The Buffalo News
With Food And a Game, Cast a Spell On Your Party
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Upcoming Events:
Casual For A Cause
An Easy Way to Support LV!
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Past Events:
> View Photos and Review Our Best Scrabble Tournament Yet!

Donors to LV had a chance to win free hotel packages... click for our list of winner!

> View photos from our annual Holiday Party

> 2008 Coffee & Chocolate Event Recap – Our Best Year Yet!
Volunteer,
Help Turn Someones Life Around
My name is John Jones. I am a student at Literacy Volunteers.

I dropped out of school when I turned 16 because I was unable to understand the schoolwork that they gave me. They put me in the slower classes because I could not read. The only thing that I knew how to read was my name, John Jones. I did not even know how to spell my middle name Allen...
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Featured Partner:

Junior League of Buffalo
Literacy Volunteers is pleased to partner with the Junior League of Buffalo as their community partner.
accredited program of pro literacy
Many new students, tutors, and mentors in our adult and family literacy programs are referred by "friends and relatives."
Please tell yours. Help change a life word by word and make a difference in the 30% functional illiteracy rate in our community.

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