Literacy Buddies is an in-school program which involves over 800 corporate volunteer and student buddies. Each month students write letters (in class) to their corporate ‘buddies’, with the aim to encourage reading and writing, and to provide interaction with positive adult role models.
Literacy Buddies aims to:
- Enhance students’ literacy skills
- Establish a friendship between the student and corporate role model
- Assist students in their learning and personal development
- Engage students in a creative, personal and meaningful program
- Raise awareness in the corporate community of issues that students may face
- Provide corporate volunteers with the opportunity to give back to the community by making a difference in a child's life
- Engage corporate volunteers in a program that can make a real difference without taking too much time from their busy schedules (less than 15 minutes a month!)
- Provide an opportunity for corporate employees to meet people from within their own organisation who they might not come across in their day-to-day job role
- Help improve staff morale at corporate organisations
