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UPS promotes financial literacy education to AVANCE – El Paso participants

Posted on July 29th, 2010 by admin in Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Melissa Mireles, Media Relations 210-230-9663 MMireles.nat@avance.org

El Paso’s AVANCE receives $6,500 from the UPS Foundation towards financial literacy education

EL PASO, TX – (July 29, 2010) – The UPS Foundation announced AVANCE-El Paso’s award for $6,500 to support the financial literacy component of its adult literacy classes.

“With the financial assistance of the UPS Foundation, AVANCE is able to educate low-income Hispanic families about making the right choices when it comes to their finances,” said Nydia P. Correa, Executive Director, AVANCE-El Paso.  “We are proud to call UPS a partner in our efforts to educate families in our region.”

With many families struggling during these tough economic times, it is important to provide educational avenues to get them on the right track.  Funding from the UPS Foundation will help cover the costs incurred with delivering the financial literacy curriculum to adult participants. 

While AVANCE-El Paso administers the AVANCE Parent-Child Education curriculum at 17 school sites, funding restrictions allow for only 11 of these sites to offer ESL (English as Second Language) classes and merely six sites to offer GED classes. The organization needs additional support from others, like UPS to continue changing the lives of low-income, at-risk families.

For several years now, local UPS employees have contributed greatly to the program through a number of volunteer efforts.  In particular, employees have strengthened AVANCE’s efforts at the Robert F. Kennedy Pre-K site by contributing to a number of literacy activities, such as: 

  • Participating in “conversation circles” with ESL students to help in aiding their progress towards developing English speaking skills
  • Assisting and tutoring adult ESL and GED students in the five GED subject areas of reading, writing, math, social studies and science.  Tutoring is done both on an individual and group basis
  • Presenting to students about possible career paths available to them as well as special topics related to the volunteers’ area of expertise
  • Reading to children one to four years of age in the child center as well as engaging children in arts and crafts, puzzles, and other educational activities.

 For more information,  please contact AVANCE – El Paso ‘s Taylor Moreno, Assistant Executive Director at 915-204-2246

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