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Welcome to Living Wages

Living Wages is a community based, non-profit organization that provides adult education in Southeast Washington, DC.

“Education is an indispensable strategic instrument for sustainable human development. It is a tool. But it is also the right of every person – the right to become an active and creative citizen. Lastly, learning is a joy: in it each person may discover a sense of freedom, self-realization and independence. Once experienced, the joy of learning can never be forgotten, it repeats and returns throughout a lifetime; and it is inexhaustible.”

-- Federico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO
At the Fifth International Conference on Adult Education, Hamburg, July 1997

DC Learns Awards

Congratulations...

On November 19th, DC Learns held their annual awards ceremony. We nominated Ed Prendergast for the Literacy Volunteer Award.   The Literacy Volunteer Award recognizes an individual volunteer whose efforts have made a major contribution to a student; an adult, family, or children's literacy program; or to literacy volunteerism in the District. and one adult learner for the adult learner award. We nominated Yolanda Smoot for the Outstanding Adult Learner Award.  The Mary Harshaw Outstanding Adult Learner Award recognizes an adult learner who has accomplished significant literacy goals and/or employed new literacy skills on behalf of other adult learners. Ed Prendergast received the Literacy Volunteer Award.  Congratulations Ed Prendergast!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pictured (l to r): Ed Prendergrast, Sr. Betsy Hartson, Yolanda Smoot, Bob, Aisha Monroe, Alice

 
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