Literacy Programs
Learning to Read the Bible
Being able to read and have access to the Bible and other good literature is crucial to improving one’s health and welfare and living a Godly life.
TEACHER TRAINING WORKSHOPS
All teachers are volunteers.
Literacy/ESL classes are held where there are learners – whether in prisons, leper colonies, or villages.
Student teachers are taught to teach with love.
They learn how to draw lessons and the 5 basic steps to teaching adults to read and write.
Teachers practice until confident of abilities.
After TTW’s are held, follow up visits with teachers helps them to improve their skills.
OUTCOMES AS OF September 2017
Total teachers trained since 2014: 3,205
Teachers trained since Oct 2016: 243
Total learners: 18,247
Total literacy graduates completing 72 lessons in villages: 794, and in prisons: 590
English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers trained: 22
ESL graduates: 36
Prison ESL – New learners: 161
Equipment:
Tens of thousands of books have been printed.
8,000+ reading glasses distributed to classes.
EFFECTS of LITERACY and ESL PROGRAMS
People from various religions and denominations are in literacy classes together.
Families are learning God’s principles for living together.
Communities are uniting and working together, helping each other.
People have come to know Jesus as their Savior.
EFFECTS of LITERACY and ESL PROGRAMS
Two classes of people with leprosy and disabilities started in 2017.
- All class materials are provided freely.
- Teaching methods are modified to meet their special needs.
- Each lesson time is extended to optimize student learning.
- One class is near graduation!
ERUTE PRISON: LIBRARIES IN PRISONS
In early 2017, HAN expanded classes into Lira’s Erute Farm Prison. HAN has been requested to provide a library for the new readers. Bookshelves, tables, benches, and books in Lango & English are needed. Contributors attending the HAN Benefit, held in October 2017, raised over $2,000 toward the library project!
THE RUBBER CUTTERS
In early 2017, HAN expanded classes into Lira’s Erute Farm Prison. HAN has been requested to provide a library for the new readers. Bookshelves, tables, benches, and books in Lango & English are needed. Contributors attending the HAN Benefit, held in October 2017, raised over $2,000 toward the library project!
THE RUBBER CUTTERS
Rubber cutters are a group of people that recycle rubber goods into new items. In December of 2016, HAN demonstrated a reading class and provided a Teacher’s Training Workshop in Jan/Feb 2017. For many months, the group struggled to locate a facility with which to hold classes. As of October 2017, the rubber cutters have found a building to hold classes in and there are 9 students.
