| Address: | 108 Fairbanks Rd.
Farmington, ME 04938 |
| Phone: | (207) 778-3460 or (207) 628-5451 |
| E-mail: | literacyvolunteers@msln.net |
| Website: | http://www.literacyvolunteers.org |
| Contact: | 778-3460 (Joan) |
| Clients: | Literacy Volunteers provides free reading/writing service to individuals with low level literacy skills. Trained volunteer tutors will work 1:1 in private. Serving Franklin and Somerset Counties and Livermore Falls, Livermore and Jay areas. |
| Services: | Literacy Volunteer tutors take an 18-hour workshop. They are then matched with a student in their area. This service is free, confidential, and on a one-to-one basis. Tutors and students meet at a place of their choice, either in the student’s home or a local learning center, or library. Literacy Volunteers has teen tutoring programs in schools in both counties. Literacy Volunteers also sends volunteers to different nursing homes in the area to read to the patients. |
| Fees: | No charge. LVF&SC is funded by Tri-Valley and Mid-Maine United Ways, grants and donations. |
| Hours: | LVA F&SC is located at the Adult Basic Education office in Farmington and their office hours are Mon. through Thurs. - 8:30 to 4:00, Fri.- 8:30 to 1. However much of the work is done by appointment. |