In Tumaco we gave workshops to publicize the Let’s All Learn to Read (ATAL) program to 54 teachers. The program provides new methodologies and strategies to improve reading and writing and, therefore, the learning of primary school students.
These trainings generate interest in many teachers who express a lack of preparation and tools for the specific teaching of reading and writing. The training provides them with materials, methodologies and support to teach it, taking into account the social and cultural context of these municipalities with an Afro-Colombian population, which suffer from high poverty rates weighed down by the conflict and post-armed conflict, drug trafficking, the lack of opportunities for youth, and child recruitment among others. In this scenario we work on the school’s capacity as a promoter of equality and child protection.
Improving learning from initial literacy allows us to recover the gaps that many boys and girls present in the schools where we work, and reduce school dropouts. Likewise, we began level evaluations of more than 110 1st and 2nd year students, to know their starting point and to be able to measure the impact after applying the program. In parallel, we also added school reinforcement processes that include the revitalization of community libraries in neighborhoods where children are in a particularly vulnerable situation.
These actions are part of the Educating for Peace project , aimed at improving the capabilities of the Afro-Colombian educational community and peaceful coexistence, as transformative tools towards building peace in Tumaco and Francisco Pizarro.
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