This article is about the National Mobilisation Programme for Literacy in Peru (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/01/peru-literacy-amazon-pronama-barbier)
The aim of this program is to learn to read , write and do basic calculations to the 11% of Peruvians who are illiterate, as adult or child .
In the past, many villages were too far from teachers and school ( some of them were several days away from school), so that many adults could not go to school during their childhood
This four-month courses has began in 2006 in the Andes and then has been extended to the whole country
It has been difficult to convinced adults to come to school because of many reasons. First of all, the Sendero Luminoso had left a very bad memory to indigenous people. Now they have difficulties to trust intruders. Facilitators must have been recruited to facilitate contacts between population and this program and its teachers. The second reason is that most adults say that they can’t learn any more, that’s too late, in fact they can’t say they’re ashamed .
The 2007 census said that 16% of Peruvians speak another language than Spanish . The success of this programme is in one idea : the course must begin in the dialect of the village where the school takes place .
With this program every body will be able to write a short paragraph which will allow them to be understood. Moreover at the end they will be able “to sign community agreements in their own name “.
For me this programme is the nicest way for indigenous people to become a real subject of their country , not anymore a person of second-rate.
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