Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.96.981211090817.2063B-100000@ux1.cyberenet.net> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 09:36:46 -0500 From: mailto:tuandbob@CYBERENET.NET Subject: Re: DEVEL-L Digest - 9 Dec 1998 to 10 Dec 1998 To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Automatic digest processor wrote:> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:17:46 -0500
> From: John Pozzi <mailto:jpozzi@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
> Subject: Re: Illiteracy linked to poverty
>
> Dear Kerry,
>
> As Shareholders in the Global Resource Bank we can afford to do it
> ourselves.
Right on Mr. Pozzi! Curing illiteracy doesn't have to cost conventional money. All it takes is someone to accept the help, someone to help, and something to read.
I don't understand all the concepts of the Global Resource Bank, but in this instance, I think the concept is right on. People, and what they have in their brains, are our most valuable resource
> >Naturally, the report is framed in terms of "finding and keeping a job," as
> >this is the only language the North understands.
Investing in a person, no matter what the reason, is one of the best investments we can make as individuals, as a business, or as a society.
Once we've given the gift of literacy, we ought not to ask what the person does with the gift.
> >(And teaching, as just another job, simply isnt competitive in the
> >marketplace. It's too bad we can't afford to *do it ourselves*, isnt
> >it? )
In this case, we can. As is done with mentors, big brother/sister programs, after school academic coaching, and a lot of other ways, all on a volunteer basis.
Bob