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Children and Youth in the Communities
Reading and Writing for Change is a program design to target children and youth in deprived communities who have low level reading and writing abilities . This will be 4-weekends intensive program that will involve Volunteers consisting of retired eduactionist , english tutors and parents who are passionate about supporting community reading and writing .
Ask people in the community who would like to get involved to register to volunteer as part of the reading and writing program for students with lower writing and reading levels. The volunteers may come in as often as they wish and read books one-on-one with the students.. After the reading , children will be encourage to write briefly what they have learnt and their experience and share it in the break out session
The program will be run during school vacations and piloted in communities
Registered parents and children will be part of the structured program
There will be breakout sessions for reading and writing session
There will be Focus Group Discussion to share experiences and lessons learnt
Reading Skillls
Writing Skills
Presentation Skills
Inspire Creativity and Innovation
Resources can be source through grants sources, partnership support implementation with corporate organisaton , philantropic individuals , BIC for suppport in the writing and also Telecos for Internet connection .
Ideas World Cup team can also assist guide us to source funds to scale it up to other communities after the Pilot project
The Project Team consist of
Resource Person from Ideas World Cup that can help in Scalabilioty of the project /program
Project Managers : four years experience in project management
Business development manager :Five years experiences in business development
Administrator : four years experiemce in Business Administration
IT volunteer - Software and hardware exprert
Registered Volunteers from the community - Educators, Parents and Local Authority in Educaton that will be mobilised a month before the project commemce
Phases
Phase 1-Community Engagement Entry and assessment - Selected community for the reading and writing fair 2ne June -3rd June 2022
Phase 2 Team Brainstorming Stage - On Project Idea and Project life Cycle - June 10th 2022
Phase 3 Project design, Scope and Schedules - Project team - 11th June -13th June 2022
Phase 4 Community Engagement for agreed timeslines and logistics : Venue for the reading and writing and Registration of communities volunteers using leaders , schools , local authority - 14th -18th June
Phase 5 : Resource Mobilisation completes and registration of volunteers confirmed - 19th -25th
Final phase : Program commence 4th -25th July 2022 (Four weekends )
Using the concept of Social auditing and Community Resource Mobilisation to solve teaching and learning needs of the community is unique. It create a sense of belonging and ownership responsibility to solve their own problem identify without relying on central governement
Peculiar challenge in low performance when national examination results are release
However this idea can be replicated and scale up in any community that have similar challenges
Intenet facility connection
Smart Mobile Phone usage and peneration in Ghana is about 90%.
Ghana in August 1995 became the next African country to have full Internet connectivity in sub-Saharan Africa. This historic achievement was brought about by cooperation among several organizations, including Network Computer Systems (NCS), Pipex International, The Ministry of Transport and Communication of Ghana, Ghana Telecom, and British Telecom.
What we may need is Tablets or Kindles for reading and multisensory activities to aid reading
This is a social impact project and it does not intend to make profits but for the purpose of sustainabilty , the econmic plan wil be base
Proposal for funding - Crowd sourcung , grants from Corporate Entity
Volunteer and Community Support
Local Authorities financial support
Osbert Odoi
Posted on 23/05/2022Brilliant idea! Value of being able to read and write cannot be understated
Persis Adjei
Posted on 23/05/2022Reading and writing is the life line of our world today and it best we are actively involved in our society gaining adequate skill in that area Great idea
Benjamin Owusu-Ansah
Posted on 23/05/2022This idea is brilliant based on the poor level of education in rural communities.