What is Literacy?
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines literacy as the "ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning in enabling individuals to achieve their goals, to develop their knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in their community and wider society"
Read Right Society is a registered non-profit, established in 2008, located in Hope,
BC.
Our Vision:
Read Right Society promotes life skill literacy programs that acknowledge people’s needs and work together to teach those skills and empower others to fulfill those needs. In this way, we become more than we can be by ourselves, and as a community can be something we are all proud of.
Purpose:
Located in Hope, BC, the Read Right Society’s purpose is to:
- Develop and deliver literacy programs to the community
- Establish, maintain and operate an educational training centre that delivers literacy training to the community
- Operate a drop-
in centre that offers life skills and literacy training and referrals to community services, and in order to do so we are operating Swetexel Daycare & Preschool Social Enterprise.
40% of BC adults do not have skills needed to read a newspaper, fill out a work application form, read a map or understand a lease.
A 1% increase in literacy levels would raise Canada’s productivity by 2.5%, an estimated $32 billion boost to the annual GDP.
Did you know?
RRS acknowledges we are situated on Chawathil First Nation’s unceded territory. We express our gratitude and respect for the honour of living and working in this territory.