Oct 28, 2015 1 min read Adult literacy

BRICK Opens Female Literacy Center In Response To The Loss Of Adult Literacy Classes

Council member Mathieu Eugene at the ribbon cutting for BRICK's Female Literacy Center. (Photo via BRICK) — Council member Mathieu Eugene at the ribbon cutting for BRICK’s Female Literacy Center. (Photo via BRICK)

The Brooklyn Rebuild Immigrant Community and Knowledge (BRICK) has opened a Female Literacy Center at the BRICK Community Center (920 Foster Avenue near East 10th Street) in response to the loss of adult literacy courses that many neighborhood women used to attend.

Many women from the Pakistani community would to meet at the Council of Jewish Organizations Flatbush on Avenue L for classes 15 hours a week, however funding for the program was cut earlier this year and the classes ended in June. Since classes ended, the women have spoken out about the need for funding on multiple occasions.

Now the women are able to meet twice a week — Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 12pm — at the BRICK Community Center and continue their English studies.

English literacy courses have been essential to the immigrant women in this community who often spend their days inside the home while their husbands work and their children go to school.