Area schools and literacy programs seek volunteers to help children and adults improve reading skills and to assist in related projects.

Among them are:

Uplift Reading Center, 1634 Guilford Ave., Baltimore, to assist students ages 12 to 18 in reading and computer skills. Volunteers are needed from 3: 30 p.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. Contact: Salah Fatah, 410-333-6316.

Junior Achievement of Central Maryland, which is recruiting volunteers for the fall semester to present its economics education curriculum in schools across the area from elementary to high school grades. Contact: Tina Garrett, 410-527-1966.

If your school or organization is seeking volunteer reading tutors and would like to be included in this listing, call Sundial, 410- 783-1800, and enter code 6130.

Pub Date: 7/18/99