Zongo children taking personal initiative to read
A Zongo community in Ghana is the most discriminatory place for women leadership. Worse, literacy levels there are notoriously lower than the national average. Zongo creates an image of an insecure ghetto of social crimes and an ill fate neighborhood where dreams dies tender.
Some people are transforming these negative perceptions and stereotypes, communicating a powerful image of a Zongo community that is learned and has an inextinguishable zeal to survive against all social odds.
“The mere mention of Zongo connote a violent people, uneducated people. Yes, there are people in the Zongo who are violent, who do all manner of negative things you can think about but there are also people who do extraordinary things; either with their talents, with their minds or with their resources to change lives and transform communities,” said Tanko Abdullah of the Zongo Icon initiative who doubles as the planner for Mother of all Nations (Adompoja)
One such group of people, Mother of all Nations and N.G.O., with the support from the Zongo Icon initiative, has organized a 'Read [Summer] Camp' for the children in Madina Zongo, Accra.
According to the director of Mother of All Nations, Zico Abubakar Ishaq Newton, the summer camp was to train pupils, from upper primary level to the Junior High level, in writing and reading skills.
Expanding on the theme; 'Read today, Lead tomorrow', Mr. Newton stated, “We believe young people should learn reading and writing skills so they will love to read whatever they come across including their note books and whatever they see. When they are doing so, they are being expose to unlimited access to information.”
The children were exposed to carefully selected training models like reading games that enabled them to learn under playful yet stimulating conditions. These models adopted reading and writing as appraisal tools to educate children, and engaged parental inclusion in the training process of the children.
“It was an outside classroom work where the children are empowered to read, write, to understand the various formation of words. When I went round some children were learning about news reading some were reciting poems. It tells you the excitement within these children. They only need the right platform and the 'Read Camp' is giving them the platform."
A parent was impressed with the improvement she noticed in her ward. In her statement, she identify a decline in play-time of her child and a personal initiative form the child to read the books given them from the camp. As to how long this change will last, the parent is burnt on being a constant reminder to her child to learn. She entreats every parent to do similar.
Targeting children in the Zongo communities when it comes to aid and training is not only a survival strategy for the community, but a necessity to phase out the generational thought with new paradigm shift.
PS: Please report typos and errors. Thank you.
“The mere mention of Zongo connote a violent people, uneducated people. Yes, there are people in the Zongo who are violent, who do all manner of negative things you can think about but there are also people who do extraordinary things; either with their talents, with their minds or with their resources to change lives and transform communities,” said Tanko Abdullah of the Zongo Icon initiative who doubles as the planner for Mother of all Nations (Adompoja)
One such group of people, Mother of all Nations and N.G.O., with the support from the Zongo Icon initiative, has organized a 'Read [Summer] Camp' for the children in Madina Zongo, Accra.
According to the director of Mother of All Nations, Zico Abubakar Ishaq Newton, the summer camp was to train pupils, from upper primary level to the Junior High level, in writing and reading skills.
Expanding on the theme; 'Read today, Lead tomorrow', Mr. Newton stated, “We believe young people should learn reading and writing skills so they will love to read whatever they come across including their note books and whatever they see. When they are doing so, they are being expose to unlimited access to information.”
The children were exposed to carefully selected training models like reading games that enabled them to learn under playful yet stimulating conditions. These models adopted reading and writing as appraisal tools to educate children, and engaged parental inclusion in the training process of the children.
“It was an outside classroom work where the children are empowered to read, write, to understand the various formation of words. When I went round some children were learning about news reading some were reciting poems. It tells you the excitement within these children. They only need the right platform and the 'Read Camp' is giving them the platform."
A parent was impressed with the improvement she noticed in her ward. In her statement, she identify a decline in play-time of her child and a personal initiative form the child to read the books given them from the camp. As to how long this change will last, the parent is burnt on being a constant reminder to her child to learn. She entreats every parent to do similar.
Targeting children in the Zongo communities when it comes to aid and training is not only a survival strategy for the community, but a necessity to phase out the generational thought with new paradigm shift.
PS: Please report typos and errors. Thank you.
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