Teaching an old dog new ticks
Elderly people in the Vhembe region who never had the chance to go to school will at long last learn to write and speak in their mother tongue and English
LIMPOPO – Elderly people in the Vhembe region who never had the chance to go to school will at long last learn to write and speak in their mother tongue and English.
This was revealed by the Chief Executive Officer of Khari Gude (Let’s Learn) Mass Literacy Campaign, Dr Morongwa Ramarumo when she addressed more than 200 people including supervisors and coordinators of the Khari Gude Mass Literacy Campaign during a workshop over two days in Thohoyandou Library Hall recently.
According to Ramarumo, the campaign trained supervisors and coordinators annually about literacy implementation through the Khari Gude Campaign.
The campaign was launched in 2008 and already reached 3,8 million adults countrywide who were not able to read and/or write in their home language or knew how to speak English.
Love Masia, the monitor for the Khari Gude Campaign in the Vhembe region, said the workshop received great attendance volumes and the skills of trainers honed to teach volunteers who in turn will teach adults and the elderly.
One of the supervisors who attended the workshop, Gertrude Magadze of Malamulele area, said the workshop was an eye-opener for her and others and they now feel equipped to train volunteer educators on how to teach illiterate people to read and write.
