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Rotarians ● Peace Corps Africa ● Literacy

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Rotary Clubs, join hands with the Peace Corps! Children need us!

The following letter is from Dick Day, Regional Director of The Peace Corps in Africa.

Dear Rotarians,

Early childhood development is such a critical need across Africa. While we have some Peace Corps Volunteers working with local non-governmental organizations to support ECD with orphans and vulnerable children, they have little training in early childhood development and fluency teaching and few resources.

Thank you for helping equip our Volunteers on both fronts through the Souns program, and thank you for touching the little ones who so desperately need love and training.

Dick Day                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

This letter is the result of a pilot literacy project in South Africa, promising the fundamental skills of reading and writing for children. A collaboration between the Peace Corps and Rotary (currently including D9400 and D6900) means a door is open and the light is shining through it. A sustainable path to impacting literacy is visible. We have two amazingly dedicated organizations and a tool designed to teach children to read in any African language.

How can you get involved? There is a Global Grant option, as well as ample opportunity for any Rotary Club to support one or more Peace Corps volunteers in Africa. Please email: everychildwillread@gmail.com to discuss the possibilities. You might even consider joining in the training at some point. Once you have experienced the eyes of these children as they learn, you will see many things differently.

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SounsZambia – new steps for literacy

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Souns is so happy to introduce you to the new friend we have in our global efforts toward literacy. Steven Putter of IRDI  (Waters Edge, an Imagine Rural Development Initiative) is a new advocate for Souns and together we have a goal for families and education in Zambia: every – yes every – child will read! Text below is from IRDI Blog.

“IRDI [Imagine Rural Development Initiative] are proud to announce our partnership with Souns, the greatest educational system we could find globally to fit in our educational system for Zambia. It is the only system we could find that actually satisfied all the criteria of working and designing systems derived from nature and incorporated into early childhood education.

Their playful and personal contact model in their learning environment is such a positive model that it just can’t be ignored as a great added benefit to an already brilliant model of early childhood education.

IRDI would like to take this opportunity to officially welcome [Souns] to Zambia and the IRDI project on Water’s Edge in Luangwa.. welcome and thank you for choosing a partnership that will see the quality training of locals who wish to give their children a head-start in life.”

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Meet @tommmeeee!

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@tommmeeee is a tomato frog who tweets…an imaginary creature with a dream of teaching the children of the world to read. One small frog with one large imagination. Our blog SounsTalk is joining @tommmeeee in his effort to build global literacy. Souns is the way Tomee Frog teaches, so we are going to link with @tommmeeee to reach as many little people as possible to help them learn letter-sound associations, the most direct link to reading and writing.

Whatever their language, families, teachers, caregivers in the world who use the symbols of the Latin alphabet for reading and writing can learn from @tommeeee. SounsTalk is our blog to build literacy in a world plagued with children who cannot read. Please join us by following @tommmeeee on Twitter and advocating for early literacy naturally through the Souns program.

Reading leads to informed choices, informed choices lead to freedom, and feedom leads to peace. It is a journey of promise for the children of the world. Learning is fun, and learning to read should be no exception. Thank you @tommmeeee for all we can do together…Ready, set, go!