Provincial Literacy Grants Awarded, 2002

The following organizations received provincial literacy funding as recommended by the Strategic Literacy Funding Committee.

The Learning Centre
P.O. Box 961, Comer Brook, NL, A2H 6I3
Contact: Paula Power
Funds were awarded to sustain an ABE Level 1 program.
Amount Awarded: $24,486

Literacy Learning in Early Years: A Conference
Faculty of Education, Memorial University
St. John's, NL, A1B 3X9
Contact: Roberta Hammett
Funds were awarded for a conference to focus attention on strategies for promoting literacy learning in the pre-school years. The audience would be day care workers, kindergarten teachers, education students and faculty.
Amount Awarded: $6,900

Read to Ride Literacy Program
101 Long's Hill, St. John's, NL, A1C 1V4
Contact: David d'Entremont
This project promotes reading as an enjoyable and rewarding activity with one of the rewards being recycled bicycle and helmet. The program has expanded from a downtown St. John's community group to 2 community centers, many rural and urban. schools, preschool centers and community organizations.
Amount Awarded: $5,000

Baie Verte Pen. Economic Development Assoc.
P.O. Box 122, Baie Verte, NL, A0K 1B0
Contact: Dwight Sacrey
Funds were awarded to sustain an ABE Level 1 program.
Amount Awarded: $20,000

Burin Peninsula Laubach Literacy Council Inc.
P.O. Box 1308, Marystown, NL, A0E 2M0
Contact: Carol Ann Farrell
Funds were awarded to sustain an ABE Level 1 program.
Amount Awarded: $33,000
Rabbittown Learner's Program
P.O. Box 23022, Churchill Square, St. John's, NL A1B 4J9
Contact: Walter Andrews
Funds were awarded to sustain an ABE Level 1 program.
Amount Awarded: $70,700

Teachers on Wheels
P.O. Box 8455, St. John's, NL, A1B 3N9
Contact: Tom Dawe
Funds were awarded for program delivery and office operations.
Amount Awarded: $37,500

Bishop's Falls United in Inclusion and Literacy Development
P.O. Box 940, Bishop's Falls, NL, A0H 1C0
Contact: Betty Champion
Funds were awarded to sustain an ABE Level 1 program.
Amount Awarded: $25,000

Seniors Resource Centre
"Literacy For Life"

280 Torbay Rd., St. John's, NL, A1A 3W8
Contact: Charles Rennie
This program will focus on the literacy needs in the senior population.
Amount Awarded: $20,000

NF & LAB Laubach Literacy Council
P.O. Box 822, Comer Brook, NL, A2H 6H6
Contact: Isabella Fry
Funds were awarded for provincial operations.
Amount Awarded: $36,000

Deer Lake Community Learning Centre
44 Trans Canada Highway, Deer Lake, NL, A8A 2E4
Contact: Peter McBreairty
Funds were awarded to sustain an ABE Level 1 program.
Amount Awarded: $27,000

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