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- No daycare or inability to pay for available
daycare
A number of women with young children at home want to take
correspondence courses or want a volunteer tutor because they are housebound
but until September of this year there were no basic literacy courses offered
through distance education.
- Shortage of volunteer tutor programs for those adults who are
housebound and/or reluctant to attend a class.
- Lack of programs during the summer and difficulty in
obtaining information about fall programs during the summer from colleges and
school districts.
- Lack of programs in some small towns. In Dawson Creek, for
example, a farmer has been unable to get help because there is no evening
literacy program and no volunteer tutor program. (However, both the college and
a private school are now investigating the possibility of starting a literacy
program in the evening.)
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