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Literacy
Literacy in Ghana is currently running at about seventy four percent (74%). However, literacy for men is almost eighty three percent (83%) but for women it is sixty seven percent (67%). The government has a policy of universal elementary education for boys and girls. However, because they can not fully support all the costs of education and children, particularly the girls, are often needed for the farm work or tending younger siblings.
Only seventy eight percent (78%) of eligible children are currently enrolled in elementary school. The numbers, of course, drop off from there, with only thirty seven percent (37%) in secondary schools and two point four (2.4%) in universities.
Pre-school Center
Stimulation, school readiness and adequate care are key for
preschoolers to insure educational success. ALAD built a model Pre-school
Center in the village of Goma Main, Central Region. The Ghana Education
Service provides teachers.
New Pre-school Center, Sept. 2006 |
Community Library On November 1, 1997, nearly 500 village people attended the dedication of a community library in rural Torgome, a village in the Volta region of Ghana. The Torgome library, serves some 85,000 people, and was the first step in a project to build community libraries throughout Ghana. The 25,000 volume library was completed by the people of Torgome with the assistance of James B. Lancaster, Jr. and the American community living in Accra, Ghana.
Education Literacy Center After the library was completed and books became available to everyone for the first time, a large number of illiterate adults expressed the desire to learn to read and write. ALAD established a Non-Formal Education Literacy Center. The center offers classes for adult women and men. The classes and programs take place generally after six o’clock, after the families have finished working their land and have had their evening meal. The importance of teaching women to read and write is inestimable as they will teach their children.
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