ICGC launches adult literacy programme at Kpone

Kpone (GAR), June 2, GNA - The International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Kpone Haanaa Assembly, has launched its maiden adult literacy programme aimed at empowering adults with formal education.

Participants in the programme, which is on the theme, “100 per cent literacy, ” would receive free tuition in the English language in addition to extended periods in a local language of their choice and other subjects.

The programme is being organized in collaboration with the Kpone-Katamanso Municipal office of the Non-Formal Education Division.

Pastor Anthony Larbi-Amoah, Pastor in charge of ICGC Haanaa Assembly, said they realized the need to organize the programme in the community in which the church was located after some members stopped attending service.

Pastor Larbi-Amoah said after enquiries, they realized that they had language issues but they were magnanimous enough to allow their children to attend church.

That drew the Church’s attention to the fact that there were many semi-literates and illiterates in the area,he said.

He noted that the church decided to give an opportunity to such persons to become functional literates, adding that beneficiaries would enhance their visibility and functionality in society by appling their knowledge in their various jobs and other endeavours.

He added that skills training such as hairdressing and sewing would also be provided for interested persons and therefore urged members of the community to enroll on the adult literacy programme.

Mr Zac Abrahams, Acting Director of Non-Formal Education Division at KKMA, said his outfit since 2015, had enrolled and trained over 200 learners mostly drawn from market women associations, hairdressers and seamstresses, churches and individuals.

Mr Abrahams however stated that their trainees were mostly drawn from the Kpone town up to Kakasunanka Number Two due to vastness of the municipality.

He explained that one of the greatest challenges facing his outfit was their inability to reach out to residents of such distant areas due to the lack of means of transport for officials and therefore appealed to organizations to support them with motorbikes.

He also urged religious organizations and other groupings who wanted to organize such literacy classes for their members to contact his outfit.

GNA

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