Our Mission:
- To introduce creative and interactive opportunities for encouragement.
- To facilitate partnerships among students, teachers, parents, communities and businesses that promote literacy through motivation and selfless giving.
Our Purpose:
- To assist schools, reading centers, and after school programs in acquiring literacy and library resources (large and diverse) helping disadvantaged students increase their opportunities to learn and to read.
- To coordinate and facilitate annual reading day celebrations along with bi-monthly activities that provide incentives through partnerships with schools, communities, parents, businesses, global sponsors and policy makers.
The Read Across Jamaica Literacy Project (RAJLP) was fueled by research awareness that students were being passed through the education system and tossed into an economic situation that continued to leave them functionally illiterate. By looking at performance and student approaches to learning, our technique resembles a community learning environment that can be part of the solution.
2008 Student Grant Awardee(s):
Folosade Scott, UC Berekeley, CA
William Dolan, San Francisco, CA
William Dolan, San Francisco, CA