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Pocket Literacy Coach helps parents educate their children!

Fewer than 45% of America's parents read to their child.* Fewer than 28% remember to tell their child a story on a regular basis!

Research has proven that exposure to these early reading skills are essential for future literacy success in school and in life. PLC can help! Parents and teachers who are using PLC sing our praises for providing fun, creative reminders that are convenient and can easily fit into your busy schedule.

More information at: https://pocketliteracy.com/

Nicaragua Mission Trip

Hi, I will be travelling to Nicaragua on a mission trip and will be working
with children at a school down there. I have been searching high and low for
some spanish language books that I can donate to the school. So far I have
not had any luck.

Contact: scottak@live.com

HEALTH LITERACY EVANGELISM PROJECT

ABANG ASHU ACADEMY ( 3A) C.I.G

Objective: To improve the educational and medical assistance to 100 children and their mothers

Activities:

* teaching mothers to improved their writing, reading and numeracy skills
* educating mothers on adequate food and nutrition
* educating mothers on safe water , hygiene and sanitation
* educating mothers on the prevention and control of communicable diseases and tropical diseases
* sensitizing mothers on immunization
* educating mothers on accident prevention and providing first aid
* monitoring and evaluating the program
* submitting monitoring and evaluation reports and pictures to Global Literacy Foundation

Persons responsible: nurses, health educators, adult teachers
Needed Are:
-writing and reading materials for adults
- Hygiene manuals
- First aid manuals

Target group: 100 mothers

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Pathwats for Global Literacy

We are literacy NGO, specifically promoting libraries and increasing reading materials in developing countries. We will begin our work in the Dominican Republic, where we have already worked for a number of years, but eventually want to consider expanding.

With respect to literacy, we have helped build a scholarship program for youth, and have started a library in Gaspar Hernandez. Of course each context requires a different approach, but thus far, we are in the early stages of making plans in the DR, and hoping to expand later.

sarah.deardorff@gmail.com

More information at: http://pathwaystogloballiteracy.wordpress.com/author/sarahdeardorff/

Laptops for a girls school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Please contact Ms. Nzuzi (below) if you can respond to this request.

Hi,
Anne Ponzi Nzuzi from Kinshasa, the president of the Baptist women's Union and a friend of mine would like to know how to go about getting laptops for a girls school in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.The name of the school is Lycee Pour Jenes Filles Mamaekila where young girls from 8-16 learn are trained in literacy and sewing skills. There are over 180 girls enrolled in this school with only one computer available.
Would you please inform us what steps have to be taken in order to get into the OLPC program ?
Thank you very much,
Sincerely,
for Anne Ponzi Nzuzi, Kinshasa e-mail: revdeponzi@yahoo.fr

Barbara Carvill, PhD
Calvin College
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Can you help provide computer equipment for school children Papua New Guinea?

Please contact Mr. Kambowa (below) if you can respond to this request.

Warm Greetings to you from Papua New Guinea! We wonder whether your wonderful organization shall be able to provide computer equipments to two Elementary schools for school children in a rural primary school in the Tambul District of Western Highlands Province in Papua New Guinea.

We would be grateful of any support.

Yours faithfully

Mr. John Senior Kambowa
President
Melanesia Education Development Foundation Inc
P O Box 1636
PORT MORESBY
National Capital District
Papua New Guinea
Phone: + 675 72161978
Email: Melanesiaeddevfoun@yahoo.com
www.freewebs.com/melanesiaeducationfoundation

Formal, non-formal and informal learning: The case of literacy and language learning in Canada

Executive Summary

This research report investigates the links between formal, non-formal and informal learning and the differences between them. In particular, the report aims to link these notions of learning to literacy and essential skills, as well as the learning of second and other languages in Canada.

Philosophical underpinnings of this research are: