Volunteer Tutors Needed!
Are you interested in sharing 90 minutes per week to make a difference in a child’s life? Join Friendship Place and Freedom Readers as they offer a nine-week tutoring program for kindergarten – 5th-grade children. Volunteers receive training and will work one-on-one with the same student each week during the nine-week program.
DATES
Thursdays from January 25 – March 21
TIME
2:45 – 4:30 pm
PLACE
Friendship Place
1423 Front Street, Georgetown, SC 29440
2/3 of students who cannot read proficiently by the end of 4th grade will end up in jail or on welfare.
It is predicted that if a child is not reading proficiently in the 4th grade, he or she will have approximately a 78% chance of not catching up.
Low literacy costs $73 million per year in terms of direct health care costs.
