PROJECTS - Working Together

INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY

WHY

Today one in five adults is still not literate and about two-thirds of them are women while 67.4 million children are out of school.

Literacy is a human right, a tool of personal empowerment and a means for social and human development. Educational opportunities depend on literacy.

Literacy is at the heart of basic education for all, and essential for eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, curbing population growth, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development, peace and democracy. There are good reasons why literacy is at the core of Education for All (EFA).

A good quality basic education equips pupils with literacy skills for life and further learning; literate parents are more likely to send their children to school; literate people are better able to access continuing educational opportunities; and literate societies are better geared to meet pressing development .

WITH

The Za Foundation

We celebrated International Literacy Day (8^th September) by supporting the Za Foundation - providing hundreds of books to their Portishead unit.

Za was established initially to support the needs of children and young people in the rural communities of the Nkomazi region of South Africa.  Za also now works in many other S. African regions and has partnerships with many schools in North Somerset to provide opportunities to learn about local education and ways of providing educational projects for each of their countries. Currently Za is planning a container shipment of books to be converted into a library in Nkomazi. For more information see www.zafoundation.org.

The photos show us on the day with some Za members

Hartcliffe and Withywood Teenage Parents Project

We had a fund-raising concert by Miscellany

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