Linking of Literacy Volunteer Work to Forgiveness or Reduction of Graduate Debt Load

WHEREAS the number of persons with serious literacy challenges affecting their ability to work, move about, parent their children, and enjoy that quality of life that we assume is a right in British Columbia approaches 40 of the population; AND WHEREAS many of our post-secondary graduates enter the workforce burdened with enormous student loan debt that also effects their ability to make important life decisions in a timely manner: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the British Columbia Government be requested and urged to find a workable mechanism for linking volunteer work in reducing illiteracy to forgiveness of or a reduction of the graduate debt load.