Literacy Without Borders and Restore Belize are pleased to announce that training on the Academy of Reading and the Academy of Math is underway in Belize. Thanks to a gift from the Government of China (Taiwan), and the foresight of Restore Belize, the Government of Belize was able to secure 100 computers and a Master Licence...
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Check out these videos from our recent literacy training institute in Belize. Special thanks to Love TV for profiling us! ...
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What a great wrap-up to our 3 day training institute! LoveTV and Radio Belize came and sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star with us at our Rhymes That Bind training session and we were featured on the Channel 5 news. Read the article from Channel 5 below or view it here. Literacy Without Borders terrific work in...
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Literacy Without Borders is excited to be back in Belize and actively engaging our partners! Beginning today, Executive Director Randy Boissonnault and Board member Kirsten Poon, along with Master Trainer Wendy Peverett from the Centre for Family Literacy, are running a three day training institute in Belize City with partners from across the country. Participants...
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The wheels are in motion for Literacy Without Borders. The first official day of our February 2012 trip started off with a visit to Youth for the Future, a youth-centered agency mandated to advocate, empower, develop and engage active participation of young people at all levels for the overall development of Belize. Created by the...
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On Thursday January 26th at the Leading with Literacy Breakfast, a partnership was announced between the Centre for Family Literacy (CFL) and Literacy Without Borders (LWB). This partnership has many benefits to both organizations. CFL will provide LWB with the knowledge and experience of setting up literacy programs and how to effectively promote literacy among...
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What do 10 computers equipped with CALS (Computer Assisted Learning System), 10 eager students and 3 enthusiastic volunteers add up to? A LWB literacy promotion site! LWB, in partnership with the City of Edmonton Youth Council (CEYC) and Boys & Girls Big Brothers Big Sisters Edmonton, launched its first literacy site at John A. MacDougall...
Read More...LWB recruits third and fourth year university and college graduates from Canada who are prepared to devote 12 months of their time to work abroad and implement sustainable literacy programs in communities in developing nations. For 2012 we will focus on Belize.
Once students complete a five-week training institute, held here in Edmonton, they will become Literacy Ambassadors for their placement in Belize. LWB will determine teams of Literacy Ambassadors, comprised of one Canadian and one Belizean, to work together in a community for the ensuing 10.5 months. The work of each Literacy Ambassador team will be to train local volunteers in a range of literacy models and to then support these volunteers to ensure the sustainability of literacy programming in their communities.
We have developed partnerships locally and abroad to enable us to place one team of Literacy Ambassadors in as many as four communities in Belize in 2012-13.
To be considered a literacy ambassador candidate, you must meet the following criteria:
Application details coming soon!