Mission Literacy in Motion News Feed

Volunteer Tutors Make A Difference!

Author: Tara Forman
Date: 2012-04-09

Are you looking for a worthwhile challenge? Why not become a volunteer tutor? With your help, adults in our community can improve their literacy skills!

Reading
Writing
Math
Computers
Conversation

Benefits for volunteer tutors include: free training, the opportunity to make a valuable contribution to your community, and meeting interesting people, and gaining valuable teaching skills and experience.

Our next 4 week training session runs April 23 &30 (at Heritage Park Centre) and May 7& 14 (at Mission Library) from 6-9 each Monday night.

Please contact Tara for more information or to sign up!
604-557-7614 or cloc@literacyinmission.org

Calling all volunteers - past, present and future!

Author: Mission Literacy in Motion
Date: 2012-03-29

Please join us in celebration of the numerous talented and dedicated individuals that have playued a role in building Mission Literacy in Motion during the past 20 years. We are digging up the archives to look for names, but please share this with anyone you know who has contributed to MLIM. New volunteers are also welcome :)

Canada World Youth Students

Author:
Date: 2010-05-20

My name is Viktoriia V. Davydenko. I was born on the 27^th of May, 1988 in Polland, Kolobzheg.

I’m a 4^th year student of National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine. I study in the Collage of Romance and Germanic Languages.

Since 2005 I’ve been volunteering at the University of Ostroh Academy organizing donations to the orphanage houses in the city of Ostroh

For the last 4 years I’ve been applying to this program. Finally I was accepted to the CWY (Canada World Youth) Netishyn – Mission program 2009/2010.

The priorities of this programme are:

- verbal and non-verbal communication;

- dealing with different people;

- the ability to exchange the experience;

- find out more about different cultures;

- similarities and different between the cultures;

- ability to help people.

For the first part of the programme, which was held in Netishyn, Ukraine, I worked in a Social Service for Children and Youth centre. I conducted lessons at schools and tutored English. As a team we worked to:

- help clean the river;

- listened to many guest speakers;

- survey the community on their health needs.

Through our observations, the children in Netishyn were in need of extra curricular activities, therefore, we organized a soccer championship and an after school soccer program promoting women’s soccer. On top of everything I attended different work-placements at the Social Service Centre, schools, and a laboratory in Netishyn.

Now we are in Mission, Canada BC. Even though we have been here only 4 weeks, I have already experienced the atmosphere of this community. As a group we have been introduced to the history and culture of the first nation, specifically in X:aytem. What is more, we went to the Blood Bank on the 21^st of December and saw how the system operates. On the 18^th of December we met the mayor. Myself and several other people of the group went to the Friendship Centre on the 20 of December to help with serving the Christmas Dinner.

My work placement in Mission is with Mission Literacy In Motion. It is going to be a great experience in helping people:

- to understand the English language;

- to improve their literacy skills;

- to fulfill the documents and different application forms.

Moreover, on the 20^th of January I will be volunteering in the Blood Bank. Later on the whole group is going to volunteer at the Cancer Clinic.

As for me, I hope that to the end of this CWY 2009/2010 Netishyn – Mission programme my group and I will make a visible impact on the society of Mission.

Two new students from the Ukraine

Author: Mission Literacy In Motion
Date: 2010-05-19

Mission Literacy In Motion is delighted to be a participating organization with Canada World Youth, www.canadaworldyouth.org. Allow me to introduce you to two wonderful students from the Ukraine who will be working at MLIM for the next three months.

Dmytro Gomeniuk

My name is Dima. I'm from the Ukraine. I am now studying at Ostroh Academy in the Law Department. Before I went to University I went to Military school where I volunteered in my native town of Ostroh. My friends and I helped people, we helped children, we cleaned streets, and sometimes, we helped at the hospital. In 2009 I heard about Canada World Youth and applied to this program. The reasons why I am participating in this program are:

I want to help people;

I want to make a change in this world;

To improve my English;

To learn about Canadian culture.

When I was in the Ukraine for the first part of this program, I worked in an epidemological station. It was very interesting. I was present during different experiments and I also helped workers with documents. After work our group helped to organize performances and concert.

While I am in Canada, I will be working on the Community Literacy BUS. My main goals for this work are:

To help people understand, read and write in English;

To understand the difficulty in learning English;

To model volunteer work;

To learn about different community services;

To explore individual learning styles.