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Project Ideas
Depending on the needs in your community, your project
may bring literacy services to new children and adults, or work on
improving existing literacy programs. Here are some ideas.
- Recruit new children into literacy programs
- Survey the community for children, especially girl children, who
have never had the opportunity to go to school and determine if
their participation could be increased by improving access and/or
improving the quality of education.
- Make literacy programs accessible to children outside formal
education: provide classes in evening hours in existing facilities
and provide nutritious snacks. Make a special effort to reach
street children, providing them with literacy classes and
vocational training.
- Povide literacy facilities near neighbourhoods that have limited
access to schools, such as slums, to attract children. The
facilities can also be used for other programs, such as health
services for the children.
- Organise a vocational training program for older children,
making basic literacy one of its components.
- Provide schooling to children especially where child labour is
prevalent giving focus to the relevant vocational skills.
- Support exiting literacy programs for children
- Determine the dropout rates of schools in your community and
develop a plan to reduce the dropout rate.
- Provide nutritious meals to schools that do not have existing
food programs, and sustain the program over a semester or year.
- Collect used uniforms, books, and other educational materials
and make them available to schools lacking such supplies. Students
can be recruited into the effort by asking them to donate their
surplus materials.
- Adopt a school, arranging for its upkeep and caring for its
unmet needs. Provide equipment and materials, such a computers and
electronic equipment.
- Organise reading or teaching sessions where Rotarians spend some
time at the school, providing one-on-one assistance to the
students. Arrange transportation for the Rotarians to go visit the
school.
- Provide playground equipment to schools.
- Organise transportation for children to go to school.
- Reward excellence by awarding graduating students scholarships
for further education.
- Work with the Literacy Task Force to implement the Concentrated
Language Encounter teaching method in a local school or literacy
center.
- Support additional training for local teachers and school
administrators.
- Recruit new adults into literacy programs
- Conduct a survey to determine the portion of the population to
be served and the best approach for an adult literacy program.
- Implement an adult literacy program by consulting with
professional educators to develop a needed curriculum,
establishing a meeting place and time, and recruiting potential
participants.
- Create a reading space or literacy center at a centrally located
local school or community center where adults can go to practice
their reading and receive encouragement on their reading and
writing practice. Keep the reading area open in the evening and on
the weekends.
- Involve new adults in vocational training programs that have a
basic literacy component.
- Find out about the Concentrated Language Encounter teaching
method and explore how it could be used to improve the literacy
programs already in your community.
- Support existing literacy programs for adults
- Organise transportation and day-care so adults can participate
in literacy programs more easily.
- Collect used books and educational materials and make them
available to literacy programs lacking such supplies. Provide
computers and other electronic equipment.
- Invite Rotarians to work with adult learners on a one-on-one
basis, working together to improve reading and writing skills.
- Reward excellence by awarding graduating students scholarships
for further education.
- Organise a public-awareness campaign encouraging parents to read
to their children.
- Start a community literacy where one is not available. This
could be a mobile library in rural areas.
- Establish a book discussion group or reading club, perhaps in
co-operation with a local library.
- Offer an award to a local company with the most comprehensive
literacy program for its employees.
- Fund a picnic for literacy learners and their tutors.
- Sponsor a book drive to donate a collection of books to a
community center or school.
- Vocational training
- Organise a career day at a school, workplace, or community
center, providing information on the various occupations
represented by Rotarians and other community members.
- Create a career centre where community members can come review
job advertisements in local newspapers, write their resumes and
receive advice on their job search.
- Organise a workshop on a specific skill that allows community
members to improve their job skills
- Establish a home for street children, and provide vocational
training so they have a skill to sell.
- Literacy for mentally and physically challenged
- Organise special cells for slow learners.
- Start schools and/or provide support for visually challenged,
hearing/speech impairing children.
- Training of teachers
- Organise/support training of teachers in specialised educational
programs.
- Exchange of teachers between schools of different countries on
short term basis for enhancement of knowledge and experience.
- Recognising the importance of teachers and honouring them in the
society.
- Suggestions for all projects
- Stay in touch with the individuals that have benefited from the
literacy program, and encourage them to seek further education.
- Contact Interact and Rotaract clubs, and other youth
organisations to explore how the young adults can become involved
in literacy projects.
- Contact local organisations and government offices already
working in literacy to develop collaborative projects.
- Involve Rotary Community Corps to mobilise children and adults
to attend literacy classes.
- Encourage Rotary clubs to have a maximum number of Rotarians and
spouses involved in hands-on activities under the literacy
program.
- Award the Rotarians and other community members who have been
significantly involved in the literacy project.
- Use International Literacy Day (8 September) as an opportunity
to promote literacy awareness.
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