Category: literacy

  • A Wisdom Letter from Dylan

    A Wisdom Letter from Dylan

    To anyone this can help, Do you want to be shown the door? No hope, no anything, nothing more with others who don’t care and will guide you to your grave. Or you can choose to behave. It’s not your last days. Do something right instead of ending up in…

  • Why public libraries are not substitutes for warming centers: a librarian’s perspective

    Why public libraries are not substitutes for warming centers: a librarian’s perspective

    From Sarah Pump, PAN Executive Director Currently, there is only one funded daytime warming center for unhoused people in Nanaimo, the Drop-In Center located at 55 Victoria Road and run by Island Crisis Care Society. Their capacity is 20 people at a time. Estimates of the number of unhoused people…

  • TradeSkills by LCVI

    TradeSkills by LCVI

    Literacy Central Vancouver Island is developing a new literacy program called TradeSkills. The program is set to launch in the new year, and will be focusing on empowering men in the trades by enhancing their reading, writing, math and computer skills. The program is intended to help participants excel in…

  • Free support from Literacy Central Vancouver Island

    Free support from Literacy Central Vancouver Island

    Shaina from Literacy Central Vancouver Island generously shared some of her time with us to describe the resources that the organization provides to the Nanaimo community. 1. Can you summarize what role LCVI plays in the community? We are a non profit organization that provides literacy, numeracy, ESL and digital…