Community empowerment through enhanced literacy

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Implementing community involvement

From the outset, communities were drawn in to give their opinions, advice and ideas. ‘Community mobilisers’ went into the field and invited people’s contributions with the words: “Talk to us”. Indeed the term Masifundisane means “We learn together”. Yet another rallying cry was: “Each one, teach one”. A problem-solving methodology was reaffirmed for the literacy programmes.