Aboriginal Literacy program to Enngonia and Bourke
Aboriginal Literacy program to Enngonia and Bourke
Created on Wednesday, 11 September 2013 15:04
An adult literacy program for Aboriginal people is being launched in Bourke and Engonnia after a successful pilot in the state's far west.
The Yes I Can campaign is modelled on a Cuban program that has seen almost two dozen people learn to read and write in Wilcannia, where it was introduced a year ago.
The Executive Director of the Literacy for Life Foundation, Jack Beetson, says more than 50 people have already signed up for the courses at Enngonia and Bourke.
He says someone from each community has been employed to deliver the course.
"As you get older the shame gets greater, so learning from your own is very important and the campaign is about getting the whole community behind the people that can't read and write," he said.
"It basically transfers the shame of being illiterate to the literate which helps absorb some of that from the people that can't read or write at the moment."
More:
http://aboriginalhumanrights.org/index.php/the-news/1794-aboriginal-literacy-program-to-enngonia-and-bourke