{"id":450,"date":"2025-08-20T07:02:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-speitelsbach\/?p=450"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T11:02:54","slug":"learning-to-read-is-exciting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-speitelsbach\/2025\/08\/20\/learning-to-read-is-exciting\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to read is exciting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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While writing Bible lessons was rather slow going, teaching literacy started to take off. That is not to say that it was easier, or a quick course. It usually takes at least a whole year of several hours a week to finish the course. Nevertheless we started to have some graduates who can read and write.
Unfortunately the interest from adults learning to read scaled down to very few. For one, it does take some serious effort, and for most that is too much, without getting any monetary profit out of it. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After Amy changed the schedule to afternoon classes and having children come voluntarily, things started to run smoother. Paying a couple of helpers who could take over a class in our absence also helped in that. However, the most encouraging part for us is, that the children who graduated the Glaro literacy class, are also doing much better than their peers in the local elementary school, which is taught in English, their second language. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To encourage the students to finish the course, we take them for a weekend trip to the beach when they finished it. It is a 4h trip from our village, but a highlight to most, as many of them never have seen the ocean before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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