Literacy Campaign Trains Family and Friends
to Teach
Reading and Writing in Spanish
May 2008–On a recent trip to Israel, Uju Anya, a UCLA Ph.D. student in Applied Linguistics and Portuguese, found herself feeling “blind.” Unable to speak, read or write in Hebrew, she was “afraid to go out on the street” without her Israeli husband. She quickly realized that her experience mirrored that of her non-literate students at Centro Latino, where she had been fulfilling a service learning component of her studies. For Centro Latino’s students, among the approximately 202,000 people in Los Angeles County who are non-literate in Spanish and English, the inability to read and write can turn a 2-hour bus ride into a 6-hour ordeal, Go to Article
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The deadline has expired for proposals to be accepted for our 2008 Funded Partnership Program. Proposals were due by 4:00 pm on May 1, 2008.
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