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| Title: | Overcoming Destitution through Literacy: A Case of the Disabled Persons' Literacy Programme in Kano State, Nigeria |
| Author: | Indabawa, Sabo A. |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Social Development in Africa (ISSN 1012-1080) |
| Volume: | 15 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 15-25 |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | biblio. refs. |
| Geographic terms: | Nigeria Northern Nigeria West Africa |
| Subjects: | people with disabilities literacy Education and Oral Traditions Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Health and Nutrition Economics and Trade education employment Disabled persons Kano State (Nigeria) |
| Abstract: | In Nigeria, illiteracy is high among adults, particularly among disadvantaged groups. In Kano State the initiative was taken to promote literacy among disabled people, many of whom are street beggars in urban areas. The initiative had the additional objective of overcoming destitution. This paper describes this basic literacy programme for destitutes, which was organized by the Kano State Rehabilitation Board for the Disabled and the Kano State Agency for Mass Education from 1989 to 1990, and which enrolled 450 adult learners in a programme designed to teach them to read, write and numerate in the Hausa language. Despite some criticisms as to the small number of participants, the inappropriateness of the content, the unsuitability of the teaching method used, and the brief duration of the project due to lack of funding, this small-scale effort has proved that adult destitutes can learn and that what they learn can generate returns for self-reliance. Bibliogr., note, sum. |
