Valencia County Literacy Council

With Literacy and Justice for All

280 La Entrada Los Lunas, NM 87031 (505) 925-8926 Fax (505) 925-8924

Events
Board Annual Meeting, August 21st, 9:00 to 1:00, with Board Retreat by HELP-NM. Location TBA. Call Jill at 925-8935 for more information.

Student and Tutor Potluck, August 31st at the Student Community Center at UNM-Valencia, with Guest Speaker Marten Griego. Call Susan Howard for more info. at 925-8935.

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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

Mission Statement

VCLC’s mission is to enable adults to achieve personal goals and very young children to achieve pre-literacy skills through literacy services provided to families free of charge.

Vision Statement

We envision a Valencia County in which all residents have the Literacy skills they need to achieve their own dreams and to enhance the quality of their lives.

Core Values

We serve residents of Valencia County with low literacy and/or limited English-language skills.

We are committed to the use of volunteers to provide instruction.

We value quality instruction that is centered on Learners’ Own Goals.

We support the Adult Learner in all his/her capacities as a Community Member, Family Member, and Worker.

We support Adult Learner Leadership.

We believe that the ability to read is critical to personal freedom and the maintenance of a democratic society.

We believe that as our culture becomes more complex and dependent on technology, Literacy becomes ever more basic to survival and the achievement of one’s potential.

We work to encourage and assist other organizations and individuals who are committed to a literate society.

Featured Student: Lun Flock

About 1 year ago, Byrd and Lun first met. Byrd, a retired professor, had just completed her New Tutor Training with the Valencia C

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ounty Literacy Council (VCLC). They met in the Volunteer Tutoring office at UNM-Valencia Campus and decided they would meet after that at the Belen Public Library. Lun had brought a friend with her that speaks Vietnamese. Lun could speak almost no English. Byrd could speak no Vietnamese, and she was a little nervous.

They started with single words in English. Byrd used pictures from a picture dictionary from the tutoring office to show Lun vegetables and teach her how to say them in English. It was very dif

“Lotus are fragrant and beautiful...”

--from “Lotus” by Lun Flock

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ficult for Lun to pronounce English consonants. For “p” Lun would always say “f” Byrd says until Lun learned to say potato.

Now Lun has begun to write small essays and poems. Recently, Lun wrote, “I Vietnamese people. I no English. My friend help go library one year—teacher Byrd teach me English very good. One year I talk English and write English. I happy and thank you. I thank America—I love America.” For more of Lun’s lovely writings, please see below.