Literacy day celebrated at Dormaa Ahenkro

Dormaa-Ahenkro (B/A), Sept. 28, GNA - PAMOJA, a coalition of 28 non-governmental organisations with similar objectives has, in collaboration with ACTIONAID Ghana, organised a forum at Dormaa-Ahenkro to mark International literacy Day under the theme "International Vulnerable Groups with Literacy".

The theme for the celebration was linked to UNESCO's 2009/2010 biennium of the United Nations Literacy Decade. PAMOJA has established 500 regenerated Flerian Literacy Community Technique (REFLECT) in nine out of the 10 regions of Ghana covering more than 18,000 adults.

These adults acquire literacy under strict supervision by sharing in basic problems confronting their communities and participating in solving them.

REFLECT members meet to identify and prioritize community needs that they discuss with their traditional and opinion leaders for solution.

PAMOJA and ACTIONAID have five REFLECT communities in Dormaa Municipality, among them Nsesereso, who have used the methodology to acquire places of convenience, school blocks and a police station under construction. In an address to mark the Day Madam Millicent Akoto, National PAMOJA coordinator, said illiteracy was a violation of the fundamental human right of those who could not attain any formal education through no fault of theirs. She said two-thirds of all illiterates in Ghana were young women caught up in abject poverty. Mad Akoto appealed to all social development minded individuals, policy makers and organisations to join PAMOJA to fight "a worthy course for the vulnerable." She assured the Non-Formal Division of the Ministry of Education of PAMOJA's continued support and cooperation in the nation's strive to provide literacy skills to those who did not have it.