Literacy Volunteers on the Green Completes Training of New Tutors in English as a Second Language
NEW MILFORD – (October 1, 2009) – Literacy Volunteers on the Green, a local non-profit organization that helps new residents from abroard learn English, has completed the training of 15 new tutors.
Training was held recently at the LVG headquarters in St. John’s Episcopal Church on the Green under the direction of Anne Maitland, co-founder and executive director of LVG, and Arley Gray, a veteran educator living in the area who conducts the training sessions twice a year.
“We are absolutely delighted at the quality and enthusiasm of our newest group of tutors,” said Ms. Maitland. “Following the intensive program under Arley Gray’s supervision these volunteers will be fully equipped to help our newest residents from abroad to speak, read and write English and thereby become much more productive members of our community.”
Ms. Maitland said the new class of tutors brings to 174 the number of instructors LVG has trained since its founding four years ago. So far over 400 people in Litchfield and northern Fairfield counties and adjacent New York State have been given the gift of the English language.
For further information about LVG visit www.lvg-ct.org or call 860-355-0830. LVG has been designated as a 501[c[ (3) organization by the IRS.
New tutors have completed training for Literacy Volunteers on the Green program to teach English to area newcomers.
Back row - left to right:
Martha Lambert [Brookfield], Gillian Merritt [New Fairfield], Zane Swanson [Sherman], Annie Swanson [Sherman], Eric Ho [New Milford], Judith Russell [Roxbury], Jeanne Wardell [Lakeville], Jeanne McRoberts [Sherman], John Davidson [Washington]
Front row – left to right:
Gayle Pantaleo [Kent], Lyn Mattoon [Sharon], Robert Fellone [Brookfield], Skip Mattoon [Sharon], Nancy Mao [Sherman], and Kathleen Bertram [Bridgewater].