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Illiteracy: six projects take action with AREVA’s employees
As in 2010, AREVA’s 48,000 employees around the world have taken up the sports and humanitarian challenge through the AthleWorldTour.
The idea is to run together for the fight against illiteracy. Kilometers run by employees during a sports event, whether at one of the group’s sites or individually, are added up to achieve the goal. Anyone can participate.
The goal for 2011 of 152,000 kilometers – four times the circumference of the Earth – was largely exceeded, with more than 233,000 kilometers logged by 94 AREVA sites in 15 countries.
As promised, AREVA Foundation donated to associations that are fighting illiteracy around the world. The donation will fund six projects in countries in which the group is based.
Projects around the world
France
AREVA Foundation is supporting the creation of a handbook by Espace Bénévolat and its "Cœurs à lire" network of associations, which are fighting illiteracy in the Paris area.
Because everything hinges on the moment a volunteer comes through the door of an association, offering his or her help, Espace Bénévolat is developing the “Recruiting, Welcoming and Integrating Volunteers” handbook this year in answer to the call of member associations for a pragmatic approach.
The handbook will address the difficulties encountered by association leaders in creating teams of volunteers and retaining their services for the organization.
Espace Bénévolat’s mission is to promote volunteering and assist in the development of associations in the "Ile de France" region. It can offer a variety of services to its member associations, especially assistance in recruiting and training volunteers.
Espace Bénévolat hosts 820 associations, including 180 that are fighting illiteracy through its Cœurs à lire network, which AREVA Foundation has sponsored since 2009.
Mongolia
AREVA Foundation is funding the training of 20 illiterate adults in the Dornogobi region. Trainees are taken away from their environment, where their handicap is often stigmatized, to attend the two-month sessions organized by the NGO Orgiluun Ertunts in the capital, Ulan Bator.
The 20 adults will receive free lodging and meals for one month in the NGO boarding home. They will return to their homes after a month of classes and come back to the center later for their second month of training. The teachers believe that two months of training is enough for an adult who already speaks the Mongolian language.
The illiteracy rate in Mongolia at the end of the 1980s was 98%, an issue that the country had to face during its transition to democracy and a market economy after leaving the Soviet Block in 1990. Founded in 2008, the NGO Orgiluun Ertunts decided to devote itself to the fight against illiteracy.
Namibia
The Namibian Literacy Trust is participating in the government’s “Lifelong Learning” project to fight illiteracy in the Erongo region.
The goals are:
- to launch and publish research programs on this topic,
- to set up literacy programs for adults and children,
- to support and promote distance learning.
AREVA Foundation supports this project and is financing the purchase of two vehicles so that the association can reach isolated people, in addition to two instructor training sessions to help them acquire new literacy tools and methods and adapt them to the regional language and culture, and the purchase of basic supplies (pens, pencils, notepads, etc.).
The Namibian Literacy Trust (NLT) is an NGO created in Namibia in 1993 to fight illiteracy in a country that still bears the scars of a complex post-apartheid period.
Germany
It has been shown that the more young children are in contact with books, the easier it is for them to learn to read and write.
This is why AREVA Foundation is supporting the Erlangen library project to acquire 10 “literacy boxes” containing books and educational materials to be lent to kindergartens and daycare centers in Erlangen.
Another objective of the project is to provide training to educators to sensitize them to their educational role and to the role of the parents whose children are under their care.
Each of the boxes contains 25 books, interactive language games, audio books and handbooks.
They will be loaned to early childhood centers for one to three months so that each child can benefit from them and even take one of the books home to share it with his or her parents.
United-States
AREVA Foundation supports gifts of books to the very young to give them a taste for reading at an early age and facilitate the learning process.
The books are distributed in hospitals and health care facilities by Reach Out and Read so that very young children, aged six months to five years, learn to love books and are introduced to reading at an early age to lessen the difficulties of learning.
Three key actions:
- Encourage parents to read aloud to their children every day.
- Give each child a book suited to his or her development.
- Organize reading sessions by Reach Out and Read Volunteers for children who are hospitalized or during visits to the pediatrician.
Reach Out and Read (ROR) is committed to fighting illiteracy through reading programs conducted in hospitals and health care facilities in the United States. It reached 3.8 million children last year in 4,500 hospitals and health care facilities in the United States and distributed 6 million books.
Canada
AREVA Foundation is supporting a project in three northern Saskatchewan high schools led by the Saskatchewan Literacy Network. The project involves an educational program for young aboriginal students, the majority of whom do not speak English as a first language. It is also planned to buy educational equipment specific to the Canadian context based on local requirements.
The project is being conducted in partnership with the Northern Lights School Division, a group of schools with a majority of aboriginal students whose teaching methods build on cultural diversity.
The objective is to begin fighting illiteracy with students aged 12 to 15 years, to sensitize them to reading and writing, but also to develop broad communication and self-management skills.
The Saskatchewan Literacy Network has been fighting illiteracy in northern Saskatchewan since 1989.
Why illiteracy ?
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Because reading, writing and arithmetic are important to making it in today’s world.
Whether for adults, children, rich countries or developing countries, fighting illiteracy means helping these vulnerable people become independent and employable.
