Please do take the time to read (and donate?) to this wonderful new Canadian charity - and it's associated charity in the UK: 'Life'.
http://www.lifeliteracy.org
Both charities are working very hard to create and support schools for West African communities where the need is very great indeed.
If you go to the 'Project' page at the Solon Foundation website, you will see the new school that has just been built. We at Phonics International are working collaboratively with the founders to bring basic literacy knowledge and skills to the children!
Phonics International is supporting the charities to bring literacy to the children in the two schools linked to the Solon Foundation and to Life - and hopefully to the wider communities too.To address the wide range of student needs, the school arranges classes based on age and ability level and has a strong emphasis on literacy education. In addition to the core curriculum, students receive a focused literacy lesson every day. Starting in January, 2014, the school is excited to start piloting a phonetic literacy program, Phonics International, with the support of the Foundation.
We plan to build a webpage to describe more about this relationship over time.
The task for me was how to support teachers and learners in terms of the resources they have available to them, or that readily can be made available to them in remote and impoverished circumstances.
In other words, what are the most essential resources and information that can be used in very basic circumstances as you can see described via the Solon Foundation website - for teaching the English alphabetic code and the phonics skills.
The charity organisers and Phonics International Ltd take this literacy project very seriously indeed as we would like to find out how effective and replicable are the 'ingredients' for basic literacy skills in these special circumstances.
Here at Phonics International, we are calling upon people around the world who may have benefited from all the free resources and guidance we provide and who would be willing and who can afford to support these charitable organisations in such very worthwhile projects.
For example, if you have benefited from the any of the free resources via these pages, would you be prepared to donate to these worthwhile charities to support their projects please:
http://www.phonicsinternational.com/new ... urces.html
http://alphabeticcodecharts.com/free_charts.html
http://debbiehepplewhitehandwriting.com ... urces.html
Please take time to glance at this detailed report about the levels of deprivation:
http://media.wix.com/ugd/cc0000_80ccb90 ... a477ff.pdf