Dear Reader,

Literacy Volunteers of Greater Sanford provides free, confidential, one-on-one tutoring for one hour a week to any adult who wants to learn to read or to improve his or her reading skills, basic literacy skills, or English as a second language.  We also offer assistance with life skills as part of our commitment to life long learning.

Volunteers from the community are trained through 18-hour tutor training courses, held several times throughout the year, to teach basic reading to adults and English as a Second Language to foreign language speaking adults.  All training materials are provided free of charge for prospective tutors,  Since its inception in 1986, Literacy Volunteers of Greater Sanford has trained over 500 tutors and paired over 900 students.

"Friends of Literacy" who choose not to tutor but are interested in helping donate their time and talents to support the LVGS efforts.  In 2004 Fiscal Year, LVGS volunteers all together contributed 4,500 hours to the program.

Many high interest books for adults who are learning to read are housed in a library at the LGVS office in Sanford.

These funds provide LVGS with two part time Directors, tutor training, and instruction materials for students, vocabulary books, a resource center for tutors, a computer lab for both students and tutors as well as instructors for the York County Shelter.

The Literacy Volunteers of Greater Sanford office is located in the Townhouse Mall in Sanford and welcomes anyone who wishes to become a student, a tutor, a Friend of Literacy, or is interested in learning about literacy.

Along with the other members of our Volunteer Board of Directors, I look forward to meeting you.  Thank you for your contribution to literacy.

Geoffrey Titherington

Geoffrey Titherington
Board President