WHO WE ARE
Literacy Volunteers of Eastern Connecticut is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, volunteer-based organization.
Our mission is to assist English students and new Americans in learning to read, speak, and understand English so that they can thrive in America as residents, parents, employees, and business owners.
Conversation Group Schedules
We are not currently offering walk-in sessions. For the current schedule of Conversations Groups available for registration, contact the Literacy Office at 860-886-9096. T
Thank You. Hope to see you there
GET INVOLVED
Would you like to support our efforts? Choose to volunteer as a:
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Tutor: Work with one or several learners of similar ability
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Conversation Group Facilitator: Work on speaking skills with larger groups of learners
To become a LVEC Volunteer, we ask that you:
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Have proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing English
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Be patient, flexible, and sensitive to the needs and abilities of non-English speaking and functionally illiterate adults
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Contact us below.
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Complete our free professional tutoring training!
Learning is like rowing upstream, not to advance is to drop back.
– Chinese Proverb
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
-Fredrick Douglass
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
– Charlemagne
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
-Dr. Seuss
LVEC located at Otis Library
261 Main St
Norwich, CT 06360, USA
CONTACT US
(860) 886-9096
LVEC Board of Directors:
Robert D. Farwell
Linda Bonnell
l Janice Knudsen
Nancy Stuart