A non-profit organization serving people living in northeast Rochester, working to improve families, education and health and reducing crime and violence.
Promotes adult literacy through volunteer programs in Rochester NY: free tutoring in English language skills including Basic Literacy and ESL/ESOL, English for Speakers of Other Languages. Recruits and trains volunteer tutors for over 20 hours before they begin to teach. LVAR is an affiliate of Literacy Volunteers of America.
In response to the invasion and occupation of Iraq and resulting death of and physical and psychological damage to countless human beings, the First Unitarian Peace Advocates – in accordance with Unitarian Universalist principles: promote bringing the troops home from Iraq now; bear witness to the costs of this war; strive toward the healing of those who are wounded including the troops, their families, the Iraqis, and ourselves; and advocate for peaceful strategies to resolve conflict.
