17h30 - Board Meeting:
18h30 - Club Meeting:
Lizelle Langford will speak to the club on Rally to READ initiative of the READ Education Trust, for which Lizelle is currently the fundraising manager. The primary objective of the Trust is to improve education in underprivileged communities and as such, improving reading and access to literature is a core focus.
Guests are welcome. The R100 cost (payable to the treasurer on arrival) includes a meal. Please advise Ray Hewson (by email at “Info...
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With the September Rotary Theme of of Basic Education and Literacy, it was highly appropriate for Brahm Fleish, an associate professor in the Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, to address the club on the poor state of literacy in South African Schools and what is being done to change it.
While reading tests show that at the grade 4 level the average standard of literacy is way below the average of first world cou...
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Rotary supports activities and training to improve education for all children and literacy for both children and adults.
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION AREAS OF FOCUS STATEMENT OF GOALS AND PURPOSE
The Rotary Foundation (TRF) enables Rotarians to ensure that all people have sustainable access to basic education and literacy by:
1. Involving the community to support programs that strengthen the capacity of communities to
provide basic education and literacy to all;
2. Increasing adult literacy in c...
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