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Pavee Peck
A collection of recipes and stories by Traveller women
"I loved that we were all learning English too, when we were sitting around the table together. I learned lots of alphabet vocabulary, ’letter’, ‘capital’, ‘on the line’. I didn’t know these words before.” Quote from participant
This project provided literacy training to people from non-English language backgrounds. Participants included Ukrainian refugees and people in the International Protection Accommodation Services (IPAS) scheme.
This project developed a workbook to help new arrivals familiarize themselves with a Latin-based script. Five pilot workshops took place in November 2023 in Rathmines Library, Dublin. 10 participants took part, but interest was so high that workshops are likely to run again in 2024.
This project helped learners overcome the exclusion non-EU refugees go through due to a lack of English skills. All participants improved their writing skills and felt more confident to take part in society.
Here is a link to the Alphabet Literacy workbook: https://www.adultliteracyforlife.ie/f/120607/x/c946ec3a39/alphabet-esol-literacy-workbook.pdf
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Jane McNicholas from Dublin South City Partnership helped develop the Alphabet Book.
Alphabet was the result of a collaboration between Dublin South City Partnership (DSCP), the Dublin Adult Learning Centre (DALC), and City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB).
For more information about the project, please contact Andrew Connolly, CDETB Regional Literacy Coordinator at andrew.connolly@aes.cdetb.ie
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The Collaboration and Innovation Fund supports projects for adults with unmet literacy, numeracy and digital literacy needs and projects that support organisations to be literacy friendly. The closing date for 2024 applications has now passed but keep an eye out for information on our 2025 fund which will be launched in December.
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