Suffolk Literacy Council

Rodney Griffin, like one in nine Suffolk area residents, could not read, decipher a menu or share a favorite bedtime book with a child. But now, thanks to Suffolk Literacy Council tutor Faye Taylor, Griffin, a 52 year old retired shipyard equipment operator, is finally on his way to reading fluency.

“Not reading didn’t keep me out of the shipyard but it held me back,” Griffin says. “I pushed my kids to read and now I’m pushing myself.

The Literacy Council has trained 300 tutors and assisted hundreds of students in school, workplace, home and other settings since 1987.

“Our program lives or dies by grants and contributions,” says Ann March, past president of the council’s Board of Directors. “The Suffolk Foundation gives us much needed capital to maintain our program in the Suffolk Workforce Development Center.”