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Save the date! Our next Manos Amigas (Helping Hands) Celebration is scheduled for September 25, 2008, where we will honor Latino immigrant adults learning to read and write and those who help them accomplish this goal. 
Check out last year's event program to learn more about the honorees, the graduates, the sponsors, the contributors and the volunteers.
Los Angeles Countywide Spanish Literacy Campaign
With the February 29th Encuentro event at the Los Angeles Times, Centro Latino officially initiated a two-year Spanish literacy campaign in Los Angeles County. The Campaign will mobilize, train, equip and support literate Spanish speakers to help their non-literate friends and family members learn to read and write.
Do you have a parent, aunt, uncle, cousin, neighbor or friend who never had the opportunity to learn to read and write? Bring him or her to our next Literacy Campaign Training. For more information, please call (213) 483-7753 or e-mail anamaria@centrolatinoliteracy.org. Reservations are required.
Centro Latino makes it possible for Latino immigrants to gain basic literacy and other vital skills to achieve their goals and create a healthier society.
Ten to fifteen percent (10-15%) of immigrants from Latin America never had the opportunity to attend school in their home countries. Poverty and geographic isolation robbed them of an education as children. Life in the United States requires them to gain literacy and other skills to advance and help their families and communities advance.
Together, we can form a literacy bridge over which each of the 2,000,000 non-literate Spanish speakers can cross.
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