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Blue Ridge Literacy is has received $70,000 through the Roanoke Women's Foundation's 2023 Grant Cycle. This grant is part of the Foundation'
In Iran, Afghanistan and many Middle Eastern countries, the New Year is celebrated around the spring equinox, as light and life start returning to the natural world.
Sharifa Azizi held an eggplant high against the blue sky and smiled as she showed the purple vegetable to her mother, who sat in her wheelchair across a grassy open
About 95,000 of the 100,000 people who live in the city of Roanoke speak English well enough to work, attend school, receive health care, interact with government, use the transportation system and access the other necessities of life.
Blue Ridge Literacy Executive Director Ahoo Salem talks about publishing stories from the nonprofit's students. âI wrote my daughter for the first time last year,â the essay begins. âHer name is Julie. She is thirty-three.â This account of a personal triumph over illiteracy is one of almost three dozen contained in volume 25 of âWriting from the Heart,â an annual publication from Blue Ridge Literacy in Roanoke. The books gather stories and reflections from the students â or learners, as the organization terms them â who come for instruction in reading, ...