Older people are empowered with literacy skills enabling them to claim their basic state pensions, help grandchildren with schoolwork and as provide better support HIV/AIDS sufferers and AIDS orphans.
The poverty of older men and women in three townships of Kwazulu Natal is exacerbated by the lack of information and abuse that they suffer. Older people are cheated out of their pensions, are made to sign wills and funeral insurance they have not fully understood, and are denied their right to participate in the governance of their country. Kwazulu Natal province is one of the hardest hit by the HIV/AIDS pandemic and older people are among the main carers of the sick and the orphaned.
Our project will provide literacy for older people to increase their skills, build their confidence & access their rights. Lessons will be prepared & facilitated on themes chosen by older learners themselves that will help them in their daily lives.
Literacy skills will be developed at the same time as learning about health care, caring for PLWHAs and orphans and social security rights. The skills will also improve their participation in other community activities.
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
