Why Give to the Literacy Center?

Being illiterate can impact all areas of a person's life and all areas in a community. About 43% of adults with low literacy skills live in poverty. They are likely to access public assistance. Children of low-literate parents tend to get poor care and poor nutrition and do poorly in school. People who lack basic literacy skills are much more likely to suffer from heart disease, diabetes and prostate cancer.

Fourteen percent of Omaha's population is considered functionally illiterate. That means there are over 68,000 people that cannot read well enough to read a prescription bottle, a road map, look up phone numbers, or read a basic safety manual.

This impacts all of us, as employers, as educators, as members of the community and as taxpayers. Help be a solution to this problem by donating to the Literacy Center. It can only make our community better. Click here to visit our donate page.