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Designed by Literacy Mid-South, the summer literacy program gives partner sites everything they need to offer 45 to 90 minutes of K-3 literacy instruction everyday.

Literacy Mid-South typically focuses on adult learning —the group estimates that about a quarter of adults in Memphis are functionally illiterate — but decided to support summer programs for school-age children after Seeding Success brought local groups together.

“We saw a huge correlation” between students’ low third-grade scores and adult illiteracy, said Kevin Dean, executive director of Literacy Mid-South. “And we saw an opportunity, because so many summer camps have students walk through their doors every day, but they just weren’t teaching them reading.”

A pilot version of the program last summer served 350 students at six sites. This year, 10 times as many students are enrolled at 15 different locations, ranging from the Whitehaven YMCA to Memphis Athletic Ministries to a summer program run by the Memphis Teacher Residency teacher training program.

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Nepal kids teaching illiterate parents

RUKUM (Nepal), Nov 1, 2014:

Children in Nepal’s remote district of Rukum, about 500km north-west of Kathmandu, are running literacy classes for their illiterate parents.

The Swabalamban Bal Club (Self-Reliance Child Club) established the adult literacy centre in Jhula-1 of Rukum and runs daily two-hour literacy classes for illiterate adults, said chairperson of the club Alisa Chand.

Forty-five children, most of whom are below 14 years of age, are affiliated with the child club.

As many as 52 adult parents including 37 women attend informal classes where literacy and numeracy are taught, Alisa said.

The child club started the literacy centre seven months ago and run classes in local community service organization’s hall.

Alisa said that senior members of the club, who are studying in the ninth and tenth grades in local secondary school, volunteer as teacher in the literacy centre.

More than two dozen parents have already learnt basic skill of reading and writing as well as basic mathematics after attending the literacy classes over the last seven months, she said.

The club raised fund from individual donations to buy necessary teaching materials and provide free education to parents who are attending the literacy classes.

Balkrishna Rijal, a teacher at the local Ekta Lower Secondary School of Jhula, hailed the initiative of the children to teach their own parents, saying that it was an exemplary and inspiring job which should be replicated in other areas and sectors as well.

Apart from running the literacy classes, the child club has started training programmes on agriculture, business, sanitation and health for local leaders of political parties, farmers and others as a well as started a campaign to make the village an ‘alcohol free area’.