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Beyond Borders (Haiti - literacy) |
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| Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church supports two programs, one for basic education for children and another for adult literacy training. Basic Education for Children Only half of Haiti's school-aged children attend school. There are few public schools, and tuition for private schools is often too expensive for poorer Haitian families. Consequently, millions of Haiti's children grow up illiterate and remain trapped in a cycle of grinding poverty. Beyond Borders supports over 50 literacy centers for children, providing some of Haiti's poorest children with literacy skills and a basic education. Most of the children in these centers have been forced to live apart from their families and work without pay as domestic servants in the homes of others. Often, the literacy center provides the only nurture and support these children receive. Adult Literacy Training Roughly three quarters of Haiti's adult population is functionally illiterate. Many adults never had the chance to attend school. Others may have attended school for only a few years or attended a school where teachers were untrained. Through the Partnership of Hope and the Literacy Scholarship Fund, Beyond Borders supports 30 literacy centers for adults, covering the cost of classroom materials, teacher training and salaries, supervision, and logistical support for each center. Participants in this program learn to read at a basic level in their first year. In the second year of the program, participants begin applying their new skills to the demands of daily life and work to improve their comprehension and composition. About 80 percent of the participants are women. You can support an entire adult literacy center through the Partnership of Hope or provide one adult with the gift of literacy through the Literacy Scholarship Fund. Jonathan Haggard Beyond Borders P.O. Box 2132 Norristown, PA 19404 610-277-5045 http://www.beyondborders.net/index1.htm mail@beyondborders.net |
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