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The first place to attack the problem of adult illiteracy is in school. In the future if it is possible for all children to achieve the most basic level of education, learning how to read and write, adult illiteracy will be a thing of the past. But until that day comes, what initiatives can the people of Tanzania take to overcome the problem of adult illiteracy?
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‘What really struck me in the People’s University was hearing from young people about their experiences. It made me want to get to know them better and share my knowledge and skills with them. I knew that I would learn a lot from them’
These words came from Alana Jiwa, a supporter of the Fourth World Movement in New York who took part in the first People’s University session in June 2011. The People’s University opened Alana’s horizons to young people (…)
People’s University New York: Knowledge, Experience and Action In Overcoming Extreme Poverty
These words came from Alana Jiwa, a supporter of the Fourth World Movement in New York who took part in the first People’s University session in June 2011. The People’s University opened Alana’s horizons to young people (…)
International Action
The findings of ATD Fourth World’s participatory action-research project, evaluating the MDGs with people living in extreme poverty, will be showcased in New York, on 26 and 27 June 2013.
The research draws on the unique expertise of people living in extreme poverty in developing a new global framework beyond the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals.
Research participants of the three year project with direct and personal experiences of poverty, will participate in an (…)
Knowledge From Experience : Building the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda with People Living in Extreme Poverty
The research draws on the unique expertise of people living in extreme poverty in developing a new global framework beyond the 2015 deadline of the Millennium Development Goals.
Research participants of the three year project with direct and personal experiences of poverty, will participate in an (…)
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Swiss Federal Council asks for forgiveness from victims of coercion meant to be forms of assistance
Bern, April 11, 2013
In the ceremony that was held on Thursday in Bern, hundreds of former children who were forcedly taken away from their parents and other victims of coercion meant to be assistance, commemorated, in the presence of government members, Churches, the Swiss Union of Farmers and social institutions, a dark moment in the history of Switzerland. Simonetta Sommaruga, the federal councilor minister of justice, asked for forgiveness, in the name of the Federal Council Swiss Government, for the immense suffering inflected upon victims of coercion measures. Mrs. Sommaruga declared that the commemoration ceremony would be the departure point for vast historical work on this trying time in Switzerland’s history.
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Education in Burkina Faso – the importance of conciliating modern and traditional education
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Burkina Faso, known as the “Land of Upright People”, is often depicted by unfavourable statistics that do not demonstrate its strengths. It is nevertheless true that it is the second country world-wide, after Niger, with the highest school drop-out rate, according to UNICEF statistics of 2004. Enrolment rates have grown in the past ten years, from 40% to 79%, but the achievement rate remains low. Infrastructure is a problem, when even if 100,000 children succeed in obtaining (…)
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Need for community education
In this day and age, you cannot attain educational success alone. A parent cannot council his child on his own, it is necessary for others also to call on the child when mistakes are made, to give advice. When you put your child in school, you need to be like a student too. You mustn’t (…)
Education – analysis by people with an experience of poverty
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People with an experience of extreme poverty shared their views on how to reach education for all, at the Ouagadougou seminar on the evaluation of the MDGs, in March 2013.Need for community education
In this day and age, you cannot attain educational success alone. A parent cannot council his child on his own, it is necessary for others also to call on the child when mistakes are made, to give advice. When you put your child in school, you need to be like a student too. You mustn’t (…)
