Literacy Volunteers of America, based in Syracuse, which promotes adult literacy, says its Web page prompted one gift of $5,000 and another of a new computer.

Nathanson currently lives in Richmond with his wife and children, teaches adult literacy, and is involved in community organizing such as Food Not Bombs.

Education: ActionAid provides adult literacy and social change programmes.

Statistics available in 2001 from UNICEF estimated adult literacy to be 56 percent for males and 29 percent for women.

Among the most popular of Ms. Banks-Williams's efforts had been her Saturday program, which combined extra help for students with adult literacy and technology tutorials.

Although he was associated with an elite university for thirty years, he believed that the interests of democracy were more closely associated with adult literacy and education programs for all citizens.

In the fall of 1991, she began a volunteer teaching job at the Salvation Army Rehabilitation Center in Waukegan, Illinois, where she taught adult literacy.

People, Words & Change (One-on-one adult literacy)

His mother teaches adult literacy and human resources development at Southwestern Community College.

She is enrolled in the Pride program at the Brooklyn Bureau, which teaches adult literacy and job training.