As
soon as the initial intensive 8-day Teacher Development Course is finished, Readucate
Instructors have the licence to open their own Readucate Centre as
a small business. They teach in their garages, their lounges and sometimes classrooms
at school after hours. Children in need of remediation and adults longing for
literacy upliftment attend these Readucate Centres which are scattered all over
many rural areas in South Africa. Readucate Instructors
keep their own jobs and the salaries they earn in their regular positions. However,
they remit 10% of their gross Readucate Centre as a small licence fee and
to help regenerate Trust funds. Sadly, some areas are so poverty stricken that
the Readucate Instructors sometimes provide food from their own pockets
for hungry children and adults. Thus they cannot remit their licence fee as they
have no financial income. However, to develop a sense
of responsibility they insist that young and old learners who cannot pay must
"pay" by attending classes regularly and punctually and to do homework.
It is vital that the bad habit of expecting everything for nothing that grew during
the "struggle" years against apartheid should be eliminated. This way
it is. Some Readucate Instructors are Readucating
their learners at school during school hours and their illiterate parents after
hours. Thus the whole community is served on an ongoing basis. Obviously
prisoners cannot run Readucate Centres while still in prison. However,
released prisoners find that running their own Readucate Centres consolidates
on their rehabilitation process that began when they first became Readucate
Instructors while still in prison. Again, they find it hard to establish themselves
in a viable way so please help us to help them by subsidising their earning while
they are trying to build up successful Readucate Centres.
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