Wenchi (B/A), Oct. 16, GNA - A two-week training workshop for 100 newly recruited facilitators of the Non-formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education drawn from the 19 districts in Brong-Ahafo is underway at Wenchi.

The workshop is aimed at preparing the participants to acquire knowledge and skills about how to use the literacy primer as well as to handle the adult learners properly to promote the Functional Literacy Programme (FLP).

Topics being treated include 'community entry, characteristics of adult learners, class organisation, roles and qualities of a facilitator, the contents and themes of the literacy primer, planning and income generating activity and the importance of radio in literacy classes'.

Addressing the participants, the National Project Coordinator of NFED, Mr Samuel Salifu Mogre commended the facilitators for their voluntarily service towards the success of the programme and emphasised that they were the pivot around which the success of the functional literacy programme revolved. He urged them to keep up with the spirit and offer the needed help to the adult learners to make the programme a success. Mr Mogre reminded the facilitators that their work was voluntarily and therefore they could be rewarded after a critical assessment of their work. He stressed the need for the supervisors and office staff of the programme to make regular visits to the class to offer the necessary support to the facilitators so as to keep them on track to enable them to help make the programme successful in the communities. Mr Akwasi Oppong, Regional NFED Director, praised the participants for their sense of discipline and urged them to take the workshop seriously in order that they would perform creditably. 16 Oct. 06