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509 S. Wall, Suite B
Joplin, Missouri 64801
782-2646

BECOME A VOLUNTEER TUTOR!
TUTOR WORKSHOP WHEN Sat., September 27th, 2008 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. WHERE Joplin NALA Read (across from the Downtown Family Y) WHO YOU - if you want to enrich someone's life! COST FREE To register please call Marj Boudreaux 782-2646

(serving the four-state's literacy needs for over twentyfive years)
We are a member of ProLiteracy Worldwide, the world's oldest and largest literacy organization. Whether you are visiting our site to find out how you can advance the cause of literacy or to look for solutions to reading problems, we trust you will find what you need. Please contact us for further information at 417-782-2646. When Frank Laubach, the founder of Laubach Literacy Action, began his missionary work among the Muslims in the southern Philippines in the 1920's, very few could read the Arabic script in which their language was written. Laubach devised a Roman alphabet for the Maranao language and taught them to read with the visually reinforced Laubach method. In 1932 money from the U.S. was no longer available to pay the educated Maranao teachers who were assisting him. Laubach went to the datu (chief) and explained the problem. The datu thought a moment and said, "Why, we'll just have everyone who knows how to read teach someone else." He paused and made a sweeping motion with his curved scimtar blade. "If anyone refuses, I'll cut off his head." Fortunately, such methods of persuasion are not necessary today to recruit tutors, but we do use the method the datu suggested: each one who know how to read teaches someone else to read. In this way, the "Each One Teach One" motto was born.		The Problem Joplin NALA Read recognizes that 1 in 5 adults in the Joplin area cannot fill out a job application, cannot pass the driver's license test, cannot follow the directions for their medicine, cannot help their children with homework, cannot read their Bible, their mail, or food labels, cannot read warnings and road signs. The Solution Is to offer adults the opportunity to learn necessary reading and writing skills through its "Each One Teach One" volunteer tutoring program. Joplin NALA Read will assist any business or organization in developing new literacy services for the community and offer Family literacy programs to encourage parents to read to their children.