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2006 ACAL National Conference
Feb 22nd
2006 ACAL National Conference
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Focus Group 4
Technology in literacy: What are the issues? What are the
opportunities?
Convenor:
Robyn Jay, A/NSW LearnScope Manager, NSW TAFE
www.sacal.sa.edu.au/conf06/
Front cover of my new novel
Feb 22nd
Front cover of my new novel
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‘Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push’.
She struggled to get women the vote. Her son was Australia’s most famous writer. They drove each other crazy. Read all about it at http://www.boilingbilly.com/.
Meet 1st grader Srey Touch and already an inspiration
Feb 21st
Meet 1st grader Srey Touch and already an inspiration
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Srey Touch’s Story
When Srey Touch she was 17 months old, her mother appeared at the gate of the Sharing Foundation’s Roteang Orphange with her starving daughter. Lao Pov said that she had just buried Touch’s twin sister underneath their thatch hut out in back of Roteang Village. The baby had died of malnutrition and she feared Srey Touch would too. Srey Touch was in very bad condition, and she was admitted to our orphanage “hospital room” with her mom and gradually fed back to health. Her mom received lots of support and counseling from our head nanny, Dany. After a few months, mom and baby went back home with weekly formula and rice supplied.
Srey Touch, 6,is a happy, energetic little girl who is in her second year at the Sharing Foundation’s Khmer Literacy School in Roteang Village. This year, given her improved literacy skills, she is also attending Grade 1 at the Village School. Her mother, Lao Pov, who is totally illiterate, is very proud of her daughter’s education and plans to keep her in school indefinitely. Her mom works on the Sharing Foundation’s farm project, and the income she earns is enough that she doesn’t need her daughter to work. Frequently, children in very poor families work in order to bolster the family’s income, and this prevents them from attending school.
Both Bora and Nhuong, young people from Cambodia, who are donors to this cause, know this story all too well:
As Bora says, "I don’t know what I can do as a single Cambodian citizen to help next generation of my country. But I know for sure that all of our contributions will make different. Our donation can help one child to go to school for the whole month.
vuthbora.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-year-welcoming-donation…
Nhung says,"I understand how difficult it is to obtain an education when you have no money and more importantly when food and clothing are scarce. For most children in Cambodia this is a story that is all too common. Most children are illiterate and work on the family farm. As the country industrializes and leaves behind the agrarian lifestyle, these children grow up to be migrant workers with nowhere to go. Unlike those children, I was lucky enough to come to America and receive an education. This is why this cause is important to me.
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Your donation to the Sharing Foundation’s Global Giving Page will help many children like Srey Touch find a route out of poverty.
With and 10 minutes of your time, Sharing Foundation can win ,000 and you can help improve the lives of over 1,500 children in Cambodia, one of the world’s poorest countries.
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Surviving & Thriving
Feb 21st
Surviving & Thriving
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Visual depictions of the purpose for transitioning adult literacy students to workforce & higher education. Created as part of the Appreciative Inquiry event: Surviving & Thriving in our Economic Climate held by the Literacy Cooperative of Greater Cleveland, May 29, 2009.
Mon Channy 10
Feb 21st
Mon Channy 10
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For Mon Channy,10, The Sharing Foundation’s Khmer Literacy School has provided huge opportunity. Mon Channy is the only child of his widowed mom, who supports herself and her child through her work on the TSF farm. Channy, who is very small, probably due to early malnutrition, is proud to be going to school as his mother never did (see photo). He looks forward to advancing to the village school. His teacher, Ying So Ry, says Channy is a very attentive, hard working student, and she sees a bright future for him.
