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"My learner, a boy in grade three, and I work mainly on math skills. We always warm up by playing a game or two of the card game, Fish. Instead of collecting pairs, we collect two cards that add up to a sum of ten. When we started playing this game, this learner needed all of his fingers and concentration to decide what card he needed to ask for. In just a few weeks, his skills and confidence have increased and now we can have a great conversation while we are playing."
Homework Club volunteer, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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"Teaching my learner so far has been successful. We have completed two sessions and I hope that I’ll be able to make a difference in his literacy skills. It is quite apparent that he is committed to learning and quite enthusiastic about reading."
Volunteer tutor, Montreal, Quebec
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"As the year progressed, so did the math skills of the women we worked with. So did their social skills and self-confidence. To know that in some small way I had contributed to the transformation of these women was more rewarding than any other experience."
tutor, Adult Upgrading program, Halifax, NS
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"Frontier College delivers much more than [it] promises. The ability to read is undoubtedly a very worthy skill to receive on its own; however, it pales in comparison to the gift of hope. The hope for success, the hope for acceptance and the hope for the future can give any one of the children in this year's group the confidence to achieve whatever they set their minds to. . Frontier College should be heralded for the manner in which it unassumingly delivers hope for today and tomorrow."
tutor, Winnipeg, MB
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"The individual does have a voice, and the individual can stir the pot up with all of his or her might. It just takes a little bit of leg-work, a big mouth and a bigger heart. The [Literacy Ambassador] program will continue on and spread hope, as I will continue on with my volunteering efforts when my term [as Literacy Ambassador] has been completed. I am an ambassador for life."
tutor, Calgary, AB
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"Personally, I have discovered that I love sharing knowledge and information. This program has helped me discover that I would like to be a teacher one day."
tutor, English as a Second Language program, Toronto, ON
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"I look forward to all the enthusiasm that the children bring in the door as they come to the Reading Circle. They crave to have an adult sit with them and help them learn. And to watch the results over a few short years - it is so rewarding. The excitement the children experience when they are given a book to take home is amazing . The Reading Circle has also been a springboard to other healthy community activities like hiking groups and community gardens."
tutor, Reading Circle, Barrie, ON
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"Wherever the road of life may take these children [who were living at a shelter], we hope that our presence in their lives has instilled a passion for reading and shown them acts of love and kindness for other human beings through our example. We hope that they take the memories of the "reading circle people" with them when they leave the shelter because, just as we came into their lives, their entering into ours has changed each of us forever."
tutor, Reading Circle, Toronto, ON
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