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…

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 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…

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.

  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…

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…