September 9th, 2008
Trinidad: ALTA - teaching adults to read
In the Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA) classroom, trained volunteer tutors and students work together to overcome the problems that stymied their childhood learning. To both these groups literacy represents power — the tutor holds the power to change and improve someone else’s life while the student gains the power to control his or her life in a society that depends upon the written words. In this “Age of Information” where the printed word has replaced the spoken word, you cannot get by without reading.
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