A not-for-profit organisation, Baba Future Leaders Foundation, that seeks to improve literacy skills among children, has opened it second window of enrolment in Cape Coast.
The new window has given opportunity to over hundred registrants to be enrolled onto the Foundation’s second Cohort Session to receive training in basic literacy skills, culture and arts. Following their successful enrolment onto the programme, the kids, who are between the ages of nine and sixteen, would visit the centre once every week in the next six months.
Per the training schedule, the children would be assisted to be able to read and write the local Fante dialect with perfection and also speak and write the English and Asante Twi languages.
Speaking to the media during the registration, the Founder of the foundation, Mr Victor Beausoleil, also known as Baba Yaw, expressed his desire to see kids being able to speak and read the local dialect.
“I want to see our children read and write and not struggle with word recognition, and will, therefore, collaborate with local organisers to raise up the future leaders of our communities,” he explained.
To encourage the children to embrace the programme, he said: “Once a week, the children are motivated through different empowering sessions, in addition to being served a hot meal and a small stipend.”
According to him, the foundation was looking forward to other stakeholders in the education sector, and other local partners for collaborations so as to ensure the sustainability of the initiative.
“We have partnered local community organisers which have helped in diverse ways, and we are looking forward to collaborating with some schools and other stakeholders,” he said.
The Baba Future Leaders Foundation is a community-driven programme that seeks to bring children together and improve their literacy skills through cultural performance and art.
Mr Victor Beausoleil from Toronto, Canada, is the founder with support from his family and other members of African-Canadians who live in Cape Coast.
A total of 120 children, who made up the first beneficiaries of the initiative, successfully completed their training programme in December last year.
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