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Main PageAASU Graduate Students Back Literacy Center for Cuyler-BrownsvilleSavannah, GA - April 24, 2006 - Graduate education students at Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) have gathered books, furniture, and other supplies to create the Family Literacy Center at St. Mary's Community Center. Now, residents of the Cuyler-Brownsville Community, which the center serves, have been invited to an open house to showcase the new reading corner. Also on display will be the community center's new health facility, a separate project of St. Joseph's/Candler. The reading area was established in quarters made available when the health center moved to bigger new offices in the neighborhood. The open house for members of the community is scheduled Saturday, April 29, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Mary's Community Center, 812 West 36th St. Both the literacy center and the health center will participate. The student involvement is from Patricia Coberly's spring semester Strategies and Resources class at AASU. Coberly explained that she requires actual implementation of a program, not just theory, in that class, and students chose to continue an ongoing tradition of assistance to St. Mary's Community Center. Donations of furniture for the reading center were arranged. A grant from the Skidaway Rotary Club funded a core of books, and a book donation drive on the Armstrong Atlantic campus - ongoing through April 28 - has added others. The book collection is designed to have something to appeal to all reading levels. The graduate students, who are studying in AASU's Adult Education Program, are particularly interested in developing the reading skills and habits of adults in the neighborhood. The Cuyler-Brownsville Community, one of Savannah's poverty-plagued neighborhoods, is bounded by Anderson Street, East 40th Street, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and Highway 17. For more information about this project, contact Coberly at 921-3739. |
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