Hopelink seeks volunteers

Hopelink’s Eastside Literacy and other programs are constantly looking for volunteers comfortable communicating in English. Eastside Literacy needs volunteers to:

• Help adults learn to read or earn a General Education Development (GED) diploma

• Assist non-native English speakers to improve their English skills

• Teach healthy living on a budget, money management and computer skills including job searching online and resume-writing

• Oversee the children of parents who are enrolled in various Hopelink classes

• Teach computer skills to children and their parents

Additionally, Hopelink’s Kirkland center at 13013 NE 65th Street needs volunteers to:

• Work in the food bank receiving and sorting food donations, distributing food to clients, delivering food to home-bound clients, and packing home delivery bags

• Maintain the planting areas around the center

Training for all volunteer positions is provided. Volunteers must be comfortable communicating in English.

Learn more about volunteering at one of two Hopelink volunteer orientation meetings on Wednesday, Sept. 3. Orientations are presented in English. They will be held at Hopelink’s Adult Education Department office, 15015 Main Street, Suite 206 in Kelsey Creek Plaza (across from the main Hopelink center) in Bellevue, from 1:00-2:30 p.m., and repeated that evening from 7:00-8:30 p.m.

Eastside Literacy, a program of Hopelink, offers free literacy instruction to adults throughout north and east King County. For more information or directions, call the Adult Education Department at (425) 643-1912 or toll free at 1-800-870-1912.

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