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How Your Donation Helps
The Mount Waddington Family Literacy Society
works with communities, schools and organizations
to support literacy and learning for people of all ages
on North Vancouver Island.
Your donation will help provide books, literacy programming and other supports that directly
benefit our North Vancouver Island communities.
Our communities
Mount Waddington Family Literacy Society is a non-profit support system servicing the literacy needs of the School District 85/Mount Waddington region of Vancouver Island, BC, including:
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Alert Bay Fort Rupert Port Hardy Sointula
Echo Bay Kingcome Port McNeill Woss
Holberg Port Alice Quatsino
Our Programs
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Mother Goose on the Go programs
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Fostering Literacy youth tutor-mentors
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ONE-to-ONE volunteer tutors ​​
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​Community Adult Literacy Programs​
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United Way School’s Out
Our Training
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Mother Goose workshops for parents and educators
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Come Read With Me virtual workshops for parents
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Reading tutor training
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Education Assistant Training funding and support
Community Events
We bring a love of reading into the community with literacy events and activities like Literacy Fairs, Family Literacy Week in January and BC Literacy Month in September.
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We often provide free children’s books and literacy resources at community events and workshops.
Our Funding
We work hard to seek out and apply for grants as much as possible and have been fortunate to receive project and program funding from:
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Province of British Columbia
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Government of Canada
Literacy Socks from Blue Sky Clothing have been an ongoing fundraiser.
Literacy successes happen with your help.
We rely on donations and sponsors to buy books and materials for family literacy kits, and to support training and attend events.
Your donations will be used to help fund these local literacy programs and events.
You can even direct your donation to a specific program on our secure page on CanadaHelps.org
Testimonials from a few of our programs:
Fostering Literacy
“Investing in programs that enhance the literacy of our youth on the North Island can directly impact their life trajectory. The young adults participating also gain valuable work experience, develop an appreciation of teaching reading, and are positive role models for the younger students.”
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- former North Island Secondary School Principal Jay Dixon, about the Fostering Literacy Program
ONE TO ONE Reading Tutors
“If children make you smile, you enjoy their company, and are willing to commit your time, it’s hard to beat the rewards of volunteering for the ONE TO ONE reading program!”
- Reading Tutor Mary Addison, Port McNeill
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100% of participating schools reported that the program was beneficial in improving students’ reading level and comprehension, attitude about reading, confidence reading out loud, general self- confidence, and reading fluency.
- ONE TO ONE Program Evaluation Report 2016
“For the first time in her school career she has caught up with her class and is at reading level. She has increased confidence, is reading aloud in class and actually looks forward to it. It’s a big change.”
- Christine Swain, parent of student in ONE-to-ONE tutoring
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Family Literacy Kits
“The literacy/activity kits continue to get rave reviews. People cannot stop talking about them – the quality of the items, the care that went into selecting everything, the personalization. They can hardly believe that they can KEEP everything in it. An incredible success!”
- Laura Kaminker, Library Manager at Vancouver Island Regional Library, Port Hardy
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“This is amazing! I’m almost in tears of how fortunate we are to live somewhere that supports kids in the community with such amazing tools.”
- Anonymous parent who received a Family Literacy Kit
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