A recent literacy intervention programme by Rotary District 9110, in conjunction with Flipbook Foundation for Literacy Advancement pulled about 100 junior secondary school students of Government College, Victoria Island, Lagos through a literacy improvement programme. In this interview, Mrs. Belinda Nzeribe the founder of the foundation speaks with Ferdinand Ekechukwu about the empowerment programme
What is this programme all about?
This a reading and writing improvement programme for junior secondary school students. We organised this one in Government College, Victoria Island. We tried as much as we could to see if we could impact the students to improve their reading and writing levels in class. A lot of them came into school without knowing how to read and write so they were not learning in class.
We found out that the problem was actually from the primary. But these ones are here now and Rotary was gracious enough to want to fund the programme. So…
