In the past few weeks I've been e-mailing back and forth with Leonard Annan, the co-director of Adesua Ye, an adult-literacy program in Ghana.
Leonard is a student at Ashesi University, the distinguished liberal-arts college that asks its students to be creative problem solvers and to serve the broader community. For Leonard and Sela Agbakpe, this meant working with adults who could not read and write English in the surrounding community. These were people who could not help their children with their homework and who had to fight back feelings of shame to work with Adesua Ye.
Here is a short video that describes the progam, including some students who explain what a difference literacy has made in their lives.
Yo Ghana! is looking for an adult-literacy program in the Pacific Northwest so that Adesua Ye's students can share with friends here what breaking through to literacy has meant to them.
Please e-mail me (delmard@pdx.edu) if you are interested.
And if you are not already doing so, let's ponder how to join Leonard and Sela to improve the lives of people less fortunate than ourselves! If these two very busy undergraduates can accomplish so much, what excuse do the rest of us have?!
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