Young people bring positive energy to literacy programs

The statistics show - and attending a local literacy event will prove it - that the majority of literacy workers are women, and often older women, who have been in the non-profit and literacy field for a long time. This brings a number of positives to the field. However, there is a growing surge of involvement from young people - as participants and leaders - and this too is positive.

46% of Alberta non-profit workers interviewed had been in the field for more than 10 years.*

In Ontario, youth group home residents are learning 'food literacy' in cooking classes. The program architect sees it as 'food skills now, health later'. This approach promises to be very rewarding - for the participants, the program and society at large. If in the short term we transfer skills in healthy eating, food budgeting and cooking, this is bound to have a positive impact long term.

People working in non-profits plan to stay in their jobs indefinitely.*

Literacy Merritt, BC has just recognized students from a local school who supported their programs by building bookshelves, stocking them with books and delivering them. Part of the Bright Red Bookshelves international reading program

NWT Literacy's Lauchlin Maclean is taking on a major literacy fundraiser: the Mongul Rally for Literacy. The rally raises funds for both NWT Literacy and Lotus Children's Centre in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.

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