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    Book lover turned literacy advocate looks to change lives ‘one word at a time’

    Aug 21, 2018 5 minutes
    Sara Drew is the executive director of Literacy Action of Central Arkansas, which works with 850 clients a year.

    Christina Cook wants to be a respiratory therapist and hopes she and her husband can one day own a home and several acres of land – and she isn’t letting the low grades she got in school hold her back.

    Ms. Cook, age 40, hasn’t been in school for some time, but she has been hitting the books and receives regular tutoring thanks to Literacy Action of Central Arkansas.

    “I am trying to get my associate degree, my bachelor’s degree, and my master’s degree,” says the resident of North Little Rock, Ark. As a respiratory therapist, “I will be able to help people, and [we will] be able to live in a house of our own.”

    Based on the fifth floor of a library in Arkansas’s capital, Little Rock, Literacy Action was founded in 1986

    A turbulent timeAt the libraryThree other groups involved in education

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