Coordinators of a commendable adult literacy program are calling for tutors, saying they want to bring the life-changing service to more people.

The 'Read Write Now' program has been set up to reduce adult illiteracy in southern Western Australia, offering free one-on-one lessons to help adults who have missed out in the past.

Read Write Now can be accessed in 19 metropolitan and rural regions across Western Australia, but given the expanse that regional providers in particular have to cover, the people behind the program say they need some support.

Read Write Now coordinator Brian Walters says the service wants to expand from the region near Albany to provide help on a much larger scale, but they need more volunteer tutors.

“The more tutors we have, the more comfortable we feel about encouraging people out there to contact us so we can help them with their literacy,” he told the ABC in an interview this week.

“It's probably better in a way to have tutors who don't have students than to have students who don't have tutors.

“Obviously we're trying to address this problem of adult literacy, now to do that we require tutors who we train in Albany through the WA program.

“Once we have tutors then we can match them with students,” he said.

More details are available at the Read Write Now website.