Aboriginal
Adult Literacy
The Cuban ‘Yes, I Can!’ Literacy Campaign in Australia
Why has a Cuba-inspired campaign achieved such outstanding success
where government schooling and adult courses have largely failed?
Hear about the campaign
from these Aboriginal and Cuban speakers:
Jack Beetson is an Ngemba man, an Aboriginal leader and head of the Literacy
for Life Foundation.
José Chala Leblanch is a Cuban educator from the
Cuban Institute of Pedagogy for Latin America and the Caribbean and is advisor to the ‘Yes, I Can!’
Aboriginal Adult Literacy Campaign.
Yexenia Calzado is from the Asia & Oceania department
of ICAP, the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples.
Mary Waites is a Ngemba woman and is the Campaign Coordinator in Brewarrina.
Up to 60% of
Aboriginal adults living in rural and remote areas have functional illiteracy
in English. The ‘Yes, I Can!’ (!Yo,
Sí Puedo!) Aboriginal Adult Literacy Campaign, organised by the Literacy for
Life Foundation, began in Wilcannia in 2012 with Cuban advisor, José Chala. Already,
after the first pilots of the campaign, more than 100 Aboriginal adults from
the Murdi Paaki region in western NSW have graduated.
The campaign
draws on the successful mass literacy campaign in Cuba in 1961 as part of the popular
social revolution there from 1959. The ‘Yes, I Can’ campaign has been used in
29 countries to help 8 million people develop basic literacy skills.
5.30pm Thurs 31 March
Lecture Theatre 104, New Law School
Eastern Ave, Sydney University
For
more information please email sydneyacfs@gmail.com.
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