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Serving Valencia County for Over 20 Years!

Valencia County Literacy Council

280 La Entrada
Los Lunas, NM 87031
(505) 925-8926
joglesby@valencialiteracy.org

Volunteer Tutoring:
Call Susan Howard at
(505) 925-8935
showard@valencialiteracy.org

BOOK Readers:
Call Lori Griego at
(505) 865-1878
lgriego@valencialiteracy.org

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Valencia County Literacy Council (VCLC) is an accredited affiliate of ProLiteracy America and the New Mexico Coalition for Literacy.

Founded in 1987, our organization is now entering its third decade of providing help and hope to residents of Valencia County.

In the Valencia Literacy Program, we provide FREE Volunteer Tutoring for adults in Basic Reading and English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), a Family Literacy Preschool for adults in ESOL and GED en Español classes in El Cerro Mission, and volunteer BOOK Readers to read to children and free children’s books in low-income medical clinics in Valencia County.

In all our activities, we help Valencia County families who are some of our most vulnerable residents to become more self sufficient.

Did You Know?

UNESCO estimates that there are more than 771 million nonliterate adults in the world. It sees adult literacy as a basic human right and integral to the solutions for poverty, access to health care, educating children, and human rights abuses.

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The National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS) of 1992 indicated that 20% of Valencia County adults (16 and over, not enrolled in school) would have trouble reading a simple newsletter article and picking out information. Fifty percent have literacy skills below that required by most jobs today, and 24.2% speak no or only very limited English.

See Executive Director Jill Oglesby’s Guest Columns for the Valencia County News Bulletin:
Why Literacy is Important to Me	Gratitude
Haz Bien (or, They’re Singing for Literacy)	Worldwide Movement


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Thanks to Our 2008-2009 FUNders:

Grants: United Way of Central New Mexico; Wal-Mart Distribution Center, Wells Fargo Bank
Benefactors--$1000 Plus: Camille Segretto, Valencia Lifeline, Pedro Rael
Gold Level Sponsors--$500 Plus: The Los Lunas Museum of Heritage and the Arts, sponsors of Baila Baila Dance Academy; Representative Andrew Barreras.
Silver Level Sponsors--$300 Plus: Holliday Fence, Inc., and Construction; Senator Michael Sanchez.
Bronze Level Sponsors--$150 Plus: The Valencia County News Bulletin, sponsors of Romano Enrique; Dr. Dieterichs; MyBank, sponsors of Mayela Alejandra; Business Women of Valencia County, Representative Elias Barela, Ambercare, sponsors of Sandra Montoya, Wells Fargo Bank, Representative Don L. Tripp.
Live And Silent Auction: Diana Lara, The Graphic Arts Station, Barbara Warren, Jan Oglesby, Dr. Donald Leach, Barkalow Chiropractic Office, RIBS III, Carlos Cantina, Back to the Basics Herb and Natural Store, Gilbert Garcia and Sons, Rutilio’s, Joyce Becerra, Starbucks, the Center for Ageless Living, Barbara Warren, Lori Gast, Scott Oglesby, Solo Cup, Dr. Joe Wilson, Dolph Schlies, Tierra del Sol Golf Course, Greg and Deb Schwirtz, Pavlos Panagopoulos and Financial Network.