Learning to read at all ages is possible
Audio 48:30
Two students from the Fatoma Rural Family Home during a Fulani literacy class.
The vast majority of students in the last promotion are women.
(photo: Charlottte Beckh)
By: Amélie Beaucour
49 mins
On the occasion of International Literacy Day, how to learn to read when school has not provided this basic knowledge?
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According to UNESCO at least 773 million adults today in the world cannot read or write correctly, including 190 million in Africa.
At a time when covid has strongly affected schooling, how can we fight illiteracy so as not to create the illiterates of tomorrow?
How to resume learning to read in adulthood?
With :
Laurence
Pierson
, graphopedagogue, co-author of
Permis de lire (Éditions MDI)
Aline Le Guluche
, author of
I learned to read at 50 (Éditions Prisma)
Mamadou Lamine Sow,
Head of the Education Sector for
UNESCO
in West Africa
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