Dominican Literacy Center
Aurora, Illinois

We help women learn to read, write, and speak English, as well as helping immigrant women and men prepare to pass their naturalization test and become new U.S. citizens. All of us on staff and our hundreds of volunteers believe that empowering our immigrant brothers and sisters is an important venture. We invite you to join us in this venture.

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Year founded
women have Participated in our Programs
of the people of Aurora, IL (pop. 200k) are immigrants from other countries, and speak another language as their 1st Language
of Illinois residents (2.6 million) could benefit from adult literacacy of English Language Instruction

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Volunteer tutor Joan Dollinger, left, has mentored Jocefina Vargas for nearly three years at the Dominican Literacy Center in Aurora, which recently was honored by the Library of Congress for its program. Denise Crosby/Beacon-News

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Volunteer to Tutor

Approximately 150 volunteer tutors come to the Center every week to partner with women who wish to learn to read, write, and speak English. All tutors receive 16 hours of training and on-going support from the Dominican Literacy Center staff. Tutors meet with students weekly, using ESL books, writing exercises, conversation practice, grammar exercises and a computer program provided by the Literacy Center.  

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