Learning to Read in South Africa

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Learning to Read in South Africa

	Summary Older people are empowered with literacy skills enabling them to claim their basic state pensions, help grandchildren with schoolwork and as provide better support HIV/AIDS sufferers and AIDS orphans. How Donors Like You Helped Thanks to donors like you, a total of $504 was raised for this project.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The poverty of older men and women in three townships of Kwazulu Natal is exacerbated by the lack of information and abuse that they suffer. Older people are cheated out of their pensions, are made to sign wills and funeral insurance they have not fully understood, and are denied their right to participate in the governance of their country. Kwazulu Natal province is one of the hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and older people are among the main carers of the sick and the orphaned.

Activities

Our project will provide literacy for older people to increase their skills, build their confidence & access their rights. Lessons will be prepared & facilitated on themes chosen by older learners themselves that will help them in their daily lives.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $504

Funding Policy: subsidized/guaranteed

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $504as of Jun 09 2004. The original project funding goal was $9,995.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Literacy skills will be developed at the same time as learning about health care, caring for PLWHAs and orphans and social security rights. The skills will also improve their participation in other community activities.

Project Message

You'll never know the joy of being able to board a bus on your own simply because you can read the destination on the front window. You're never too old to learn.
- Mrs Thembekile Hlubi, Manager