Community Outreach and Assistance Programs

Eradicating Illiteracy

cientologists recognize illiteracy as the root of poverty and crime and lost productivity in our cities, and the necessity to take effective action to eradicate it.

Six years ago, Church of Scientology volunteers in Washington, DC, formed the Community Service Guild, a tutoring project to assist the DC public school system's Saturday Learning Extension Program. Quickly recognizing the real needs, they started training tutors, and through the years have trained hundreds of tutors who in turn have tutored thousands of the school system's students. Testing of students involved in the Guild's program show marked improvements in their school performance.

Similar projects to eradicate illiteracy have been established by Church volunteers in cities throughout the United States, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, Boston, Memphis, Orlando and New Haven, as well as in Australia, Canada and other countries.

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