THE Ministry of Education on Sunday launched a ‘Literacy Clinic’ at Fun City, Ramada Princess Hotel, East Bank Demerara targeting scores of children from nursery to secondary schools.Acting Chief Education Officer Marcel Hutson said the initiative is one of several efforts by the Ministry to enhance literacy in Guyana.

“If you can’t read, all other areas in your life will be affected,” he said, pointing out that the aim of this clinic is to “sensitise parents and sensitise the community” of the value of literacy.

In addition to the literacy clinic, the Ministry has begun to distribute ‘literacy kits’, which include reading materials and some interactive games to schools in observance of Education Month.

Education Officer at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) Samantha Williams said the clinic involves assessing children and “putting forward strategies to improve their literacy, to their parents”.

The strategies used at the clinic, she noted, are strategies that are part of the schools’ curricula.

The Literacy Clinic will be taken to the Giftland Mall on Sunday, September 18 and then to the Seawall Bandstand on Sunday, September 25.
According to Hutson, these areas were chosen because a healthy crowd can be found there.