What is Literacy?

 

 

"Literacy means an individual's ability to read, write, and speak English, and to compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society, to achieve one's goals and develop one's knowledge and potential."

-- National Literacy Act 1991

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Friends of Literacy strives to help volunteers realize that their efforts at helping someone learn to read not only changes the life of that person, but also, in the process and result, it changes the entire community. One person. That's how you start to change the world."

—Brad Meltzer

 

 

Friends of Literacy 101 E. Fifth Avenue Room 217 Knoxville, TN 37917