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Why Volunteer?

Community Involvement

Volunteers play a vital role in supporting literacy programs throughout the Northwest Territories. By volunteering at the Literacy Outreach Program, you not only lend support to those who are working to improve their literacy skills, but you also become aware of the needs of your own community.

Rewarding Experience

You can find teaching another person to read and speak the English language one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. You will gain a new appreciation of your own skills, and watch as someone grows in confidence and skill before your eyes.

Easily Accessible

Literacy Outreach has a variety of volunteer opportunities in the area of Adult Basic Literacy. As a one-on-one volunteer tutor, you would meet with a student for two to four hours per week. We offer a FREE Literacy Tutor Training Program that will help you prepare for a rewarding experience as a literacy tutor!

  1. Make and post flyers all over the place—anywhere you think you might be able to find volunteers: college, library, stores, cultural centres, bookstores, restaurants, coffeehouses, band offices, etc.
  2. Make contact with your local public library, not only to allow you to post or give out flyers, but also to see if the librarian has any ideas for recruiting volunteers from its pool of library patrons. You could also make bookmarks (just photocopy and cut) with your local program information on them and ask the librarian to have circulation clerks give them out to each patron checking out books.
    (Note: you could try the bookmark strategy with bookstores, too.)