You're Invited to Become a Hero

…And a hero is what you’ll be if you become a volunteer literacy tutor at the library.

The Echo Park library needs more tutors to help adults whose English skills have suffered from bad schools, difficult choices, or family troubles. It’s hard to hold a job, raise kids, or simply negotiate the intricacies of modern life without good reading and writing skills. What you take for granted is a dream—or a challenge—to many of your neighbors.

We provide the training (a few hours online). We provide the materials. We find you the students. We’re there to help you. And you set your own hours, as long as it’s when the library is open. You need only to be bright, compassionate, and friendly.

All we ask of you is two to three hours a week...and all we give you in exchange is the chance to see someone bloom into a fully-engaged denizen of our city, and know it's your fault.

Contact me at echoparkliteracy@lapl.org or 213-228-7037, extension 08. Or just come in if my door is open. I’m at the Literacy Center in the lobby of the Echo Park branch library at 1410 W. Temple Street. Join us! We’re quite harmless…except to ignorance.

Rick Risemberg

Adult Literacy Coordinator

echoparkliteracy@lapl.org

213-228-7037, ext. 08