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About us...
The Literacy Group of Waterloo Region is a volunteer, non-profit, charitable organization dedicated to helping adults 18 years and older improve their basic reading, writing and math skills to:
  • increase their opportunities for better employment
  • prepare for further education and training
  • live more independently in the community
Volunteer Tutors help you with essential skills
Our Objectives
  • To provide communications and literacy services in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and surrounding areas.
  • To improve basic skills in reading, writing and math.
  • To recruit and train volunteers to become tutors, board members and committee members.
  • To promote community awareness and interest in literacy.
  • To help adult learners take responsibility for their own learning .
Group tutoring or one-to-one tutoring
Funding
The Literacy Group receives funding from:
  • Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities
  • United Way Kitchener-Waterloo
  • United Way Cambridge & North Dumfries
  • Employment Ontario

We are also grateful for support from the community, the support of its members (click here to become a member), private donations, corporate giving programs and local grants.

Thank you also to the Kitchener Public Library for donating our library resources and shelving; the Kitchener Community Foundation for its financial support of our adult programs; and the Zonta Group for supporting the Women in Transition writing group.

Serving our Community
The Literacy Group has been serving Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Elmira, New Hamburg, St. Jacob's and the rural community since 1999. The Literacy Group was formed through the amalgamation of Core Literacy, the Cambridge Literacy Council and the Literacy Council of Kitchener-Waterloo.

Group and one-to-one tutoring is offered by trained volunteers
to adults living in the urban and rural areas of Waterloo Region.


 
     
 

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