The Life Enrichment Center (LEC) is a non-profit organization established in 2003, which provides literacy tutoring to elementary students from Title I Schools in Norfolk who are reading below their grade level. The goal is to help these students become proficient readers by the end of the third grade. Students who are reading at or above their grade level by the end of the third grade are four times more likely to graduate from high school.

• Since 2007, over 500 elementary students from low income communities have been served by LEC literacy tutors.

The LEC establishes Literacy and Technology Centers (LTC) purchasing up to 25 computers and provides new furniture for each new LTC established.

• Technology and Literacy Centers have been established at Richard Bowling Elementary School, Jacox Elementary School, and P.B. Young Sr. Elementary School. Technology and Literacy Centers will be launched at James Monroe and Tidewater Park Elementary Schools in 2014.

• Over 5,000 students have been impacted by the LEC Technology and Literacy Centers since 2007.

The LEC mobilizes, trains, and deploys tutors from for-profit and non-profit settings to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring to students. Tutors are assigned to help 1 student for 1 hour a week for 1 academic year.

• Over 10,000 volunteer hours have been donated to the LEC to help children become proficient readers.

• Since 2007, 200+ tutors have participated in the LEC Literacy Tutoring Initiative.

The LEC sponsors annual summer camps for students from low income communities, emphasizing academic enrichment (math, science, and literacy), art and music awareness, and social and spiritual development. Old Dominion University, Regent University, and Norfolk State University are strategic partners in this endeavor.

• Over 400 students have participated in LEC summer camps over the past several years.

Life Enrichment Center Norfolk • 230 West Bute Street, Norfolk, Virginia 23510
www.lecnorfolk.org • lecnorfolk@verizon.net • 757.623.6001