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I celebrate this reporting. I would never have considered such a barrier to accessing freedom of movement. Thank you for this.

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Thank you for reading Ross!

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Thanks for pointing out the need for more opportunities for people in our community to learn English. If you want to help consider volunteering with Literacy Action!

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Thank you for the tip! Is Literacy Action currently looking for voluteer English tutors or teachers?

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Yes! I am especially interested in encouraging people who might be willing to assist with Conversational English classes we hope to re-start at the Doraville Library very soon.

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Jan 21, 2023·edited Jan 21, 2023

Hi. I have been a literacy volunteer through the library system in my former home state of New Jersey. Today, I reside about 45 minutes southwest of Atlanta and volunteer with Reading Corps, tutoring Fulton County 3rd graders who have fallen behind during Covid. I would be very interested in offering English lessons to speakers of other languages. Is there any chance that a 501c3 exists with which I might serve in that regard? marmie606@gmail.com

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Hi! Thank you for reading and commenting :). Literacy Action is one. https://literacyaction.org/volunteer/ ; Some others are CPACS https://cpacs.org/esl/ ; in Clarkston I know there is this one -

https://www.gptc.edu/adult-education/esl-el-civics/

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Thank you.

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John,

Literacy Action is the group we are hoping will resume offering Conversational English at the Doraville Library but that might be a little out of your way.

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