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To empower unemployed township youth into community role models, developing them into leaders in literacy by training them to provide one-on-one reading help and reading clubs to primary school learners in township schools, whilst simultaneously growing their professional experience.
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Situation
The Literacy Tutor (LT) programme is tackling the literacy crisis in South Africa where 78% of Grade 4 learners cannot read for meaning. This comes with a high cost as low educational attainment is seen as the principle driver of youth unemployment, with estimates of 67% of township youth unemployed. Illiteracy is highest in disadvantaged communities with overcrowded classrooms (up to 50 children) & a lack of reading resources, where teachers are not able to provide one-on-one attention
Solution
Unemployed young people in townships are trained as Literacy Tutors to support primary school learners in their communities through one-on-one reading help and reading clubs. The LT Programme aims to improve the learners' literacy skills, while developing the youth's employability, personal and professional skills. Thus, we match learners with committed & trained Tutors to simultaneously address the foundation of problems of poor academic achievement, unemployability and poor economic growth.