Literacy Action provides Atlanta adults with free education

“The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated the education and employment disparities that already exist in Atlanta and increase disproportionately among women, immigrants and people of color. While these disparities sharpened, I think a noticeable new challenge to the communities we serve was the digitization of education and the widening of the digital divide during the pandemic,” said Hill.

Many students lacked internet access or internet capable devices, so Literacy Action worked with its partners to assist students in accessing free internet services and distributed computer devices to students who needed them.

“Our mission is to build better futures by empowering adults with literacy, life and work skills, and our vision is to break the intergenerational cycle of low literacy and poverty,” said Hill.

Who’s helping?

Literacy Action

Services: Literacy Action provides free adult basic education classes.

How to help: If you are interested in volunteering, please visit literacyaction.org/ways-to-give/

Where to donate: Visit www.literacyaction.org/donate or mail a check to Literacy Action, 231 Peachtree St., NE, Suite M-100, Atlanta, GA 30303

How to get help: Anyone not currently enrolled in school, 16 and older can register at literacyaction.org/students/student-pre-registration/ or call 404-818-7323.

If you are involved in or know of an organization working to bring relief to the Atlanta community during the coronavirus pandemic OR you are with an organization with supplies that you don’t know where to donate, please email us at Shannon.n.Dominy@gmail.com.