Rose Henry’s
Summary on The Premier Literacy Summit
November 2004
After years and years of speaking to people about Human Rights and the eradication of Class ism and negativity that society cast upon people existing in the group. I have found myself speaking out about solutions and how we as a community could eliminate these invisible barriers. Some of these barriers included accessibility to education.
Over the past few months I have been saying that if we had access to tools (services) than we could work our own way out of such things as poverty and the type casting that comes along with being a woman, First Nations, or a person born into poverty.
The tools that I am referring to are the ones that can either be used as a barrier to stop the growth of a person’s self esteem or enhance it. Things like adequate daycare, transportation, clothing and basic school supplies.
Simplifying application forms and educational support services so that they are more legible to the individual’s understanding. Spending time and not rushing individuals who have expressed a desire in furthering their education.
For me a part of this solution came along time after one of the hundreds of rallies when one of the rally attendees invited me to attend Premier Gordon Campbell’s Literacy Summit, on her behalf. When this invitation came I saw this as a small window of opportunity to share some of the stories that I have heard over the years from everyday people such as myself who are trying to return to school.
This summit was organized to bring together over one hundred and seventy educators from all over British Columbia. These educators were from both the public and private educational departments.
The premier informed the group that he has plans to invest in to the literacy programs. He said that he has a vision of having one of the highest literacy provinces in all of Canada before the 2010 Olympics.
His plans are to release a small amount of money starting in the year 2005 until 2010 starting with accessibility to public libraries, and into non-government organizations (NGO). He wants the libraries to introduce a new province wide loans system to its users.
He and a few of his selected cabinet ministers claim that they want to reduce the alarming statistic of the 40% illiterate British Colombians and the 54% illiterate population of First Nations.
How they are planning on doing this is first attending this summit and utilizing the Literacy committee that was created by his cabinet members who have also committed to host a Literacy conference for consumers of these programs.
To show their commitment the minister of Education has vowed that his department will send out a set of educational books to every service organization that attended the summit. These organizations are providing a service to children as young as three years of age as old as sixteen of age.
After years and years of speaking to people about Human Rights and the eradication of Class ism and negativity that society cast upon people existing in the group. I have found myself speaking out about solutions and how we as a community could eliminate these invisible barriers. Some of these barriers included accessibility to education.
Over the past few months I have been saying that if we had access to tools (services) than we could work our own way out of such things as poverty and the type casting that comes along with being a woman, First Nations, or a person born into poverty.
The tools that I am referring to are the ones that can either be used as a barrier to stop the growth of a person’s self esteem or enhance it. Things like adequate daycare, transportation, clothing and basic school supplies.
Simplifying application forms and educational support services so that they are more legible to the individual’s understanding. Spending time and not rushing individuals who have expressed a desire in furthering their education.
For me a part of this solution came along time after one of the hundreds of rallies when one of the rally attendees invited me to attend Premier Gordon Campbell’s Literacy Summit, on her behalf. When this invitation came I saw this as a small window of opportunity to share some of the stories that I have heard over the years from everyday people such as myself who are trying to return to school.
This summit was organized to bring together over one hundred and seventy educators from all over British Columbia. These educators were from both the public and private educational departments.
The premier informed the group that he has plans to invest in to the literacy programs. He said that he has a vision of having one of the highest literacy provinces in all of Canada before the 2010 Olympics.
His plans are to release a small amount of money starting in the year 2005 until 2010 starting with accessibility to public libraries, and into non-government organizations (NGO). He wants the libraries to introduce a new province wide loans system to its users.
He and a few of his selected cabinet ministers claim that they want to reduce the alarming statistic of the 40% illiterate British Colombians and the 54% illiterate population of First Nations.
How they are planning on doing this is first attending this summit and utilizing the Literacy committee that was created by his cabinet members who have also committed to host a Literacy conference for consumers of these programs.
To show their commitment the minister of Education has vowed that his department will send out a set of educational books to every service organization that attended the summit. These organizations are providing a service to children as young as three years of age as old as sixteen of age.
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