TCU Awards $2,500 To Literacy Services
January 16, 2019 at 5:26 p.m.
TCU Awards $2,500 To Literacy Services
By Staff Report-
Karen Mayer, manager at Teachers Credit Union in Warsaw, presented Kosciusko Literacy Services Executive Director Cindy Cates with the grant.
The TCU Foundation was established to support the Credit Union’s vision of being a positive force in the communities served by TCU. The mission of the TCU Foundation is “to promote financial literacy/empowerment, education and other opportunities and causes supported by the membership, which directly benefit the communities in which TCU operates.”
The TCU Foundation fulfills the mission by promoting the Credit Union’s philosophy of “People Helping People,” advancing financial literacy and empowerment, connecting people with resources for education, employment, character building advancement and building stronger communities.
The contributions of the TCU Foundation and other donors will help to place children’s books into the homes of low-income families, according to a news release from Kosciusko Literacy Services.
Children enrolled in the Read to Grow Children's Book Club receive one book a month from birth to age 5. By placing the books in the home, KLS addresses one of the main reasons children have low skills when entering school – the lack of reading material in the home.
The parents sign an agreement to read regularly to their child. Reading to children at an early age helps the child to develop language and reading skills and increases the child’s ability to succeed in school. In the long-term, this program will help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy.
Read to Grow Children's Book Club has helped children from low-income homes enter kindergarten on par with their peers and continue their academic success. The children enter kindergarten with pre-literacy skills necessary to continue learning.
Karen Mayer, manager at Teachers Credit Union in Warsaw, presented Kosciusko Literacy Services Executive Director Cindy Cates with the grant.
The TCU Foundation was established to support the Credit Union’s vision of being a positive force in the communities served by TCU. The mission of the TCU Foundation is “to promote financial literacy/empowerment, education and other opportunities and causes supported by the membership, which directly benefit the communities in which TCU operates.”
The TCU Foundation fulfills the mission by promoting the Credit Union’s philosophy of “People Helping People,” advancing financial literacy and empowerment, connecting people with resources for education, employment, character building advancement and building stronger communities.
The contributions of the TCU Foundation and other donors will help to place children’s books into the homes of low-income families, according to a news release from Kosciusko Literacy Services.
Children enrolled in the Read to Grow Children's Book Club receive one book a month from birth to age 5. By placing the books in the home, KLS addresses one of the main reasons children have low skills when entering school – the lack of reading material in the home.
The parents sign an agreement to read regularly to their child. Reading to children at an early age helps the child to develop language and reading skills and increases the child’s ability to succeed in school. In the long-term, this program will help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy.
Read to Grow Children's Book Club has helped children from low-income homes enter kindergarten on par with their peers and continue their academic success. The children enter kindergarten with pre-literacy skills necessary to continue learning.
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