Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center students, staff participate
Adult Literacy Awareness Day
Adult learners and staff from Holyoke Community College’s Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center traveled to the State House in Boston on Thursday, March 12, to take part in Adult Literacy Awareness Day. Joined by nearly 1,000 adult learners from Adult Basic Education programs (GED, GED prep, and English for Speakers of Other Languages, or ESOL) from around the Commonwealth, the students had the opportunity to tour the historic State House, and meet with the staff of Representative Thomas M. Petrolati (D-Ludlow) and Senator Gale D. Candaras (D-Wilbraham), to speak from direct experience about the importance of Adult Basic Education classes.
Adult Literacy Awareness Day was sponsored by MassAAL, the Massachusetts Alliance for Adult Literacy. Transportation from Ludlow was provided by SABES West (System for Adult Basic Education Support) at Holyoke Community College.
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Representing the Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center (with country of origin and home town in parentheses) were: Luis and Fatima Barroso (Portugal, Ludlow), Duangratt Blodgett (Thailand, Ludlow), Haiyan Breto (China, Ludlow), Alfredo Hernandez (El Salvador, Agawam), Ana Goncalves (Portugal, Ludlow), Dora Hernandez (Guatemala, Ludlow), Betul Kayserilioglu (Turkey/Germany, Ludlow), Seungwon Kim (South Korea, Wilbraham), Aldina Lavaredes (Portugal, Indian Orchard), Deirdre Marley (ESOL Specialist) and Philip Warren, a Massachusetts Service Alliance member volunteering at the Center this year.
The Ludlow Area Adult Learning Center currently offers five ESOL classes, morning and evening, serving over seventy students who speak more than seventeen different languages. The free classes are funded by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Adult and Community Learning Services. The Center is a Community Services initiative of Holyoke Community College.
To contact LAALC: Kermit Dunkelberg, Program Coordinator, (413) 583-0320
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