Category: News

  • Project Literacy’s 30 Day Cash Giveaway is Launched!

    This year we are celebrating 30 years of serving the Okanagan with a very special fundraising event. Our 30 Day Cash Giveaway Raffle tickets are $10 each and give you a chance to win daily cash prizes from $50 to $1000 for the month of November. There is $5000 in cash prizes available and only…

  • Syrian refugee family in Kelowna eager to learn English

    Published Thursday, September 17, 2015  by the Kelowna Daily Courier, Andrea Peacock Learning English has been paramount in adjusting to a new life in Canada for one Syrian refugee family in Kelowna. Mohammed Alshahoud, his wife Sara and their five youngest children arrived in Kelowna in May. Sara and the children did not know any English, and…

  • Welder William Cripps boosts his career with help from Project Literacy

    Published: Friday, September 11, 2015 by the Kelowna Daily Courier, written by Andrea Peacock William Cripps, a welder from Ontario, moved to Kelowna in 2011 only to find that not all of his welding certificates transferred to B.C. While he was able to get a welding job when he moved here, he was making half the…

  • WE ARE SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR RAISE A READER DAY!

    Raise a Reader is our most important campaign of the year because our provincial government tops up the amount we raise ourselves. Last year that amounted to a 75% increase! We are seeking volunteers to join us on the morning of Raise a Reader Day (wed. 23rd 2015) as we hit the streets to give…

  • Reading to her sons a new skill for mom

    Steve MacNaull | Kelowna Daily Courier Brandy Twist and her two young sons settle down on the couch and she starts reading Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham to them.Nothing unusual there. After all, the book is a children’s rhyming classic. But Twist, 29, was never a good reader. In fact, she had never read…

  • We enjoyed great press during Family Literacy Week!

    Reading to your kids might help them earn an extra half a million dollars. During a lifetime, a male with higher literacy skills makes an extra $585,000 and a female $683,000. This is Family Literacy Week in B.C., a good time to reflect on the importance of literacy and its increasing importance in an ever…

  • Thank you Kelowna!

    Your tremendous support of our 2014 Raise a Reader campaign is greatly appreciated.  We raised more then $24,000 and this amount will be topped up by the BC Government.

  • Project Literacy Fills Gap – Daily Courier Article

      The modern economy requires more of a job-seeker than having a few skills and knowing how to fill in an application. Most vocations demand college or technical training. To enrol for a program — especially a popular one, such as information technology — you need to pass an entrance test. Some students have to…

  • Our Tutors Say

    Last year, we conducted a survey of our dedicated volunteer tutors. During the past year, about 125 tutors provided individual instruction in many different areas of literacy to over 470 learners. Tutors often express enormous satisfaction with their volunteer experience and with the help they receive from the staff at Project Literacy but the Board…