Freedom Readers, Inc.

Freedom Readers is an after school and summer literacy program that was designed and implemented to support families in low-income areas as they assisted their children in achieving their academic goals in reading. In the beginning, twenty students in grades kindergarten through fifth were enrolled on a first come-first served basis. The year the organization was founded, there were two Freedom Readers sites offering services to twenty children. In 10 years of operation, we’ve expanded to 20 sites in three counties. Each of these sites offers three sessions each year: spring, summer, and fall, each lasting approximately 8-10 weeks. As many as twenty adults work one-to-one with scholars as literacy tutors at each site.