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MISSION
Project FLIGHT is a not-for-profit
organization devoted to promoting literacy in children and caregivers,
through school and family literacy initiatives.
It works collaboratively with practitioners, schools, community
organizations and businesses locally, statewide, nationally, and internationally
to achieve its objectives.
VISION
v
Every child will have a book and be
able to read it at grade level.
v
Each of these children will live in
a literate environment with their family.
v
Families will live in a literate
and enriched environment.
v
Literacy
will be an entrée out of poverty.
We accomplish our mission:
For Children and Families by:
v
Placing books in the hands of
children.
v
Establishing
programs to support a home literate environment.
v
Promoting interactive reading
within families.
We accomplish our mission:
For Practitioners by:
v
Pioneering and developing educational
literacy programs.
v
Partnering with schools and
community organizations.
v
Establishing
and supporting libraries in schools & community organizations.
v
Employing a systematic framework
for advocacy, communication, networking on literacy issues locally, statewide,
nationally and internationally.
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Providing educational
resources & consulting services to schools and their providers.
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Providing a Book Bank.
v
Maintaining the
Western New York
Family Literacy Consortium.
v
Providing programs and resources
for at-risk children.
Literacy
Defined
v
Functional literacy is developed
when individuals have acquired the knowledge and skills in reading and writing
which enable them to engage in all those activities in which literacy is
normally assumed in one’s culture or group.
(UNESCO)
Literacy Defined (cont.)
v
Literacy is defined
as an individual’s ability to read, write, speak
and compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to
function on the job and in society, to achieve one’s goals, and develop
one’s knowledge and potential.
(The National Literacy Act of 1991)
Literacy Defined (cont.)
v
These definitions define literacy
broadly including social, cultural, and moral development.
