Sudáfrica: Basic Education Wins Unesco International Literacy Award

África/Sudáfrica/09 de Septiembre de 2016/Fuente: All Africa

RESUMEN: El Departamento de Educación Básica gana el premio de Alfabetización Internacional de la UNESCO para la campaña de Kha Ri Gude Alfabetización. El Departamento de Educación Básica (DBE) se enorgullece en anunciar que ha sido galardonado por  las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura, Premio de Alfabetización (UNESCO) Internacional. El Premio Confucio de Alfabetización 2016 UNESCO es para la Campaña de Alfabetización Kha Ri Gude del departamento y será entregado en una ceremonia que tendrá lugar en París el jueves 8 de septiembre de 2016. La campaña de alfabetización masiva Kha Ri Gude se lanzó en 2008 para cumplir con las aspiraciones de la Carta de la Libertad. A través de la campaña recluta voluntarios que conforman los miles de coordinadores, supervisores y educadores basados en la comunidad que se dedican a ejecutar los cursos de alfabetización cada año desde el inicio de la campaña.

Department of Basic Education wins UNESCO International Literacy award for Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy campaign

The Department of Basic Education (DBE) is proud to announce that it has been awarded a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) International Literacy Award. The 2016 UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy is for the department’s Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign and will be handed over at a ceremony to be held in Paris on Thursday, 8 September 2016.

The Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign was launched in 2008 to fulfil the ambitions of the Freedom Charter. Through the campaign recruits volunteers who make up the thousands of community-based coordinators, supervisors and educators that are engaged to run the literacy courses every year since the inception of the campaign.

The volunteers teach at community-based learning centres across the country as well as in informal venues such as backyards, local churches and even bus-shelters.

To date the campaign has touched 4.7 million people across the country and focuses on basic literacy and numeracy skills for people who were never afforded the opportunity to learn to read and write.

The UNESCO Jury appreciated the Kha Ri Gude programme for its well-developed mass literacy campaign that applied scientific research on how illiterate adults read. The panel found it impressive that since its inception in 2008, the programme had taught urban and rural based adults in 11 official languages including Braille and to date it has reached 4.7 million South Africans, mostly women.

Since 1967, UNESCO has awarded International Literacy Prizes to outstanding and innovative programmes that promote literacy, and this year UNESCO awards laureates from around the world under the theme: Innovation in Literacy.

The Minister of Basic Education Mrs Angie Motshekga will be represented by the South African Ambassador to France and Permanent Representative to UNESCO, HE Mr. Rapulane Molekane, who will receive the award on behalf of the department and country.

The Department of Basic Education is proud of all those who have been involved in Kha Ri Gude over the past eight years, and this award is testament to the hard work and dedication of the officials as well as the volunteers and participants of the Kha Ri Gude mass literacy campaign.

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