This year's BRIDGE program brought students and senior citizens in Hurtsboro together to learn, laugh and create a cookbook.
A program cooked up by faculty, staff and a graduate student from Troy University’s Phenix City Campus has proven to be the recipe for success in improving literacy and bringing generations together in the rural town of Hurtsboro.
Made possible by a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, the two-week Building Relationships in Diverse…
Students were paired with mentors from the Hurtsboro Senior Citizen Center for the two-week literacy program.
A two-week summer program in Hurtsboro, designed to strengthen students’ reading and writing skills, also helped to bring generations in the rural Russell County town together.
Troy University’s Building Relationships in Diverse Generational Environments (BRIDGE) Literacy Project, funded through a grant from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, provided a variety of reading and writing activities,…