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Literacy teacher Tashana Reid checks the work of one of the students participating in the documentation skills programme. - George Henry
A group of 20 residents from Asia and surrounding districts in South Manchester are benefiting from a documentation skills programme, aimed at empowering and advancing them through further education.
The programme, which is funded by the Alcoa Foundation and administered by the Jamaican Foundation of Lifelong Learning (JFLL), is geared towards improving literacy and numeracy skills among residents from Jamalco's mining communities, and exposes students to numeracy, literacy, general knowledge and life skills.
Literacy teacher Tashana Reid said the programme affords learners a second chance in life, allowing them to improve themselves, build self-esteem and also gives them a chance to accomplish goals they did not achieve earlier in life. She commended Jamalco for implementing the important initiative, which seeks to empower community residents.
A resident of Asia and student of the documentation skills programme, Roger Walters, while commending Jamalco for the efforts being made to give the residents a second chance, said it a very good programme and it will help in uplifting the literacy level in his community.
Jamalco's Community Relations Office, Natalee Irving, commended the residents for making a bold step in participating in the programme and encouraged participants to remain focused and aim high.
Some 51 persons have graduated from Phase One of the programme, which was implemented in Mount Airy and Ashley in Mocho Clarendon; and in Farm, Manningsfield, Broadleaf and Harmons in South Manchester.
Phase Two of the project has been rolled out in six other communities in Mocho Clarendon and in South Manchester which 83 residents are enrolled. The objective of the project is to improve the literacy and numeracy skills of some 180 residents in six communities located in the bauxite/alumina company's mining-operations area in Clarendon and South Manchester.
The project is being implemented with a grant of US$110,000 over two years, from the Alcoa Foundation.
