The Basic Skills Volunteer Literacy Program at Big Bend Community College is entering into its seventh year of operation. For the 2008-09 academic year, 23 community members have volunteered over 1,400 student contact hours tutoring students attending Basic Skills/GED and English As A Second Language classes in Moses Lake, Othello, Quincy and Grand Coulee.

Last year, the program was able to grant GED Testing Scholarships for 29 students and additional study materials. A big “thank you” goes to Moses Lake United Way, Hastings and Moses Lake Walmart for their support and funding of our program.

If anyone is interested in being a Volunteer Literacy Tutor for adults or would like more information about the program, please call Valerie Wade at 509-793-2300.

Valerie Wade

Big Bend Community College

Moses Lake