Prêt de 35 millions pour l’éducation de 100 000 enfants

« EDUCATION POUR TOUS » / Prêt de 35 millions pour l’éducation de 100 000 enfants haïtiens

La Banque caribéenne de développement (CDB) a accordé vendredi à Haïti un crédit de 35 millions de dollars destiné à l’éducation de base, a annoncé à Caracas le président de la banque, Compton Bourne, cité par la télévision vénézuélienne Globovisión.

Compton Bourne a précisé que cette ligne de crédit doit permettre la scolarisation de 100.000 enfants défavorisés dans le cadre du projet « Education pour tous ». 10 des 35 millions de dollars seront fournis par la CDB et les 25 millions restants par la Banque mondiale.

La banque régionale à vocation sociale a également octroyé 15 millions de dollars à la Grenade. Un crédit, provenant de fonds américains, qui sera consacré à la reconstruction des écoles détruites par le passage dévastateur dans l’île du cyclone Ivan, en 2004.

M. Bourne a par ailleurs annoncé d’autres projets en préparation dont bénéficieront la Barbade, Antigua et Barbuda ainsi que Saint Vincent et Grenadines dans le domaine de l’électricité et de l’eau potable notamment.

Haïti est le dernier pays de la région à avoir intégré, il y a tout juste quelques mois, la Banque caribéenne de développement créée en 1969. « Nous espérons que nous aurons des relations longues et durables avec Haïti », avait souhaité Compton Bourne. Avec l’adhésion d’Haïti, la CDB compte aujourd’hui 26 pays membres.

Source : Radio Kiskeya, lundi 4 juin 2007

L'eduaction est un mot qu'il faut redefinir car trop souvent on l'utilise sans tenir compte de son but.Peut-on parler d'education quand on apprend seulement à lire et à écirire à des enfants.Le milion de jeunes gens incarcerés dans les prisons aux Etats-Unis,comme le souligne le President iranien hier soir au programme 60 minutes montre qu'il faut plus qu'apprendre a lire et a ecrire pour eduquer un enfant.Oui le president iranien hier soir disait que 25% des citoyens americains sont des illetrés ,pourtant il n
y a pas d'analphabetes aux Etats-unis.

Alors quand on parle d'education à l'ère de la mondialisation et des technologies de l'informatique il faut bien definir ce qu'on veut faire.Suffit-il maitenant d'apprendre à lire et a ecrire aux enfants pour dire qu'ils sont eduqués?

Sanmalis,

Pa gen analphabetes o Zetazinis? Kote ou pran bagay saa?


Illiterate America
Jonathan Kozol

ILLITERATE AMERICA


1 -- A Third of the Nation Cannot Read These Words

'You have to be careful not to get into situations where it would leak out ... If somebody gives you something to read, you make believe you read it ...'

He is meticulous and well-defended.

He gets up in the morning, showers, shaves, and dresses in a dark gray business suit, then goes downstairs and buys a New York Times from the small newsstand on the corner of his street. Folding it neatly, he goes into the
subway and arrives at work at 9 AM.
He places the folded New York Times next to the briefcase on his desk and sets to work on graphic illustrations Or the advertising copy that is handed to him by the editor who is his boss.
'Run over this with me. Just make sure I get the gist of what you really want.'
The editor, unsuspecting, takes this as a reasonable request. In the process of expanding on his copy, he recites the language of the text: a language that
is instantly imprinted on the illustrator's mind.

At lunch he grabs the folded copy of the New York Times, carries it with him to a coffee shop, places it beside his plate, eats a sandwich, drinks a beer, and soon heads back to work. [4]
At 5 P.M., he takes his briefcase and his New York Times, waits for the elevator, walks two blocks to catch an uptown bus, stops at a corner store to buy some groceries, then goes upstairs. He carefully unfolds his New York Times. He places it with mechanical precision on a pile of several other recent copies of the New York Times.

There they will remain until, when two or three more copies have been added, he will take all but the one most recent and consign them to the trash that goes into a plastic bag that will be left for pickup by the truck that comes around during the night and, with a groaning roar, collects and crushes and compresses all the garbage of the
occupants of this and other residential buildings of New York.

Then he returns upstairs. He opens the refrigerator, snaps the top from a cold can of Miller's beer, and turns on the TV.

Next day, trimly dressed and cleanly shaven, he will buy another New York Times, fold it neatly, and proceed to work. He is a rather solitary man.

People in his office view him with respect as someone who is self-contained and does not choose to join in casual conversation. If somebody should mention something that is in the news, he will give a dry, sardonic answer based upon the information he has garnered from TV.

He is protected against the outside world. Someday he will probably be trapped. It has happened before; so he can guess that it will happen again.

Defended for now against humiliation, he is not defended against fear. He tells me that he has recurrent dreams.

Somebody says: WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? I stare at the page. A thousand copies of the New York Times run past me on a giant screen. Even before I am awake, I start to scream.'

If it is of any comfort to this man, he should know that he is not alone. Twenty-five million American adults cannot read the poison warnings on a can of pesticide, a letter from their child's teacher, or the front page of a daily paper. An additional 35 million read only at a level which is less than equal to the full survival needs of our society.

Together, these 60 million people represent more than one third of the entire adult population.

The largest numbers of illiterate adults are white, native-born Americans. In proportion to population, however, the figures are higher for blacks and Hispanics than for whites.

Sixteen percent of white adults, 44 percent of blacks, and 56 percent of Hispanic citizens are functional or marginal
illiterates.

Figures for the younger generation of black adults are
increasing. Forty-seven percent of all black seventeen-year-olds are functionally illiterate.

Fifteen percent of recent graduates of urban high schools read at less than sixth grade level. One million teenage children between twelve and seventeen percent cannot read above the third grade level. Eighty-five percent of
juveniles who come before the courts are functionally illiterate. Half the heads of households classified below the poverty line by federal standards cannot read an eighth grade book. Over one third of mothers who receive
support from welfare are functionally illiterate.

Of 8 million unemployed adults, 4 to 6 million lack the skills to be retrained for hi-tech jobs.

The United States ranks forty-ninth among 158 member nations of the U.N. in its literacy levels.

In Prince George's County, Maryland, 30,000 adults cannot read above a fourth grade level. The largest literacy program in this county reaches one hundred people yearly.

In Boston, Massachusetts, 40 percent of the adult population is illiterate.

The largest organization that provides funds to the literacy programs of the city reaches 700 to 1,000 people.

In San Antonio, Texas, 152,000 adults have been documented as illiterate. In a single municipal district of San Antonio, over half the adult population is
illiterate in English.

Sixty percent of the same population sample is illiterate in Spanish. Three percent of adults in this district are at present being served.

In the State of Utah, which ranks number one in the United States in the percent of total budget allocated to the education sector, 200,000 adults lack the basic skills for employment. Less than 5 percent of Utah's population is
black or Hispanic.

Together, all federal, state, municipal, and private literacy programs in the nation reach a maximum of 4 percent of the illiterate population. The federal government spends $100 million yearly to address the needs of 60 million peo
ple. The President has asked that this sum be reduced to $50 million. Even at the present level, direct federal allocations represent about $1.65 per year for each illiterate.

In 1982 the Executive Director of the National Advisory Council on Adult Education estimated that the government would need to spend about $5 billion to eradicate or seriously reduce the problem. The commission he served was subsequently dismissed by presidential order.

In his inaugural address as governor of Georgia, a future President of the United States proclaimed his dedication to the crisis of Illiterate America. 'Our people are our most precious possession ... Every adult illiterate ... is an indictment of us all ... If Switzerland and Israel and other people can end illiteracy, then so can we.

Sasaye ,
Il y a une diffèrence entre illétrisme et analphabétisme.L'illétrisme ça existe dans presque tous les pays.
L'autre jour j'avais lu un article ou un français poussait un cri d'alarme ,car le phénomène de l'illétrisme allait en s'accroissant en France.
Je suis sur qu'il y a des illetrés au canada,excepté pour le pourcentage!

Joel,

D'après ce que je sais et confirmé par Larousse, les definissions des mots "ANALPHABETE et ILLETRE" sont similaires.

Les deux décrivent quelqu'un qui ne sait NI LIRE, NI ECRIRE.

Alors que le mot ANALPHABETISME décrit la situation ou l'état de l'analphabète, celui de ILLETRISME ne figure pas dans mon dictionnaire.

Il y a certainement des illétres au Canada, mais à un percentage bien plus faible qu'en Angleterre.

J'ai lu quelque part, malheureusement je ne me souviens pas où, que le taux d'analphabétisme dans le Royaume-Uni, grand civilisateur et colonisateur, était à 50% de la population. C'est étonnant et je suis certain que la plupart des gens ne le croiront pas.

Sassaye

Truthfully I was surprised by these statistics.I know there are people in the United States who can not read the label printed on a prescription bottle or read and comprehend a simple english article ,but you just shed some light on the problem that shocked me.If this were the reality ;how can the United States be classified as one of the most developped country?It is really unbelievable that in the richest country of the world to have so many illiterates.

I know that the population of the United states has a very little percentage of very well educated people ,and a majority of mediocre ones,but what you just said is a shock to me.God almighty ,no wonder why they do not like Fidel Castro.These statistics are a disgrace ;it is a paradox that the country that sent the first man to the moon can not educate its population.

Sanmalis,

The first astronaut was Yuri Gagarin, he piloted the Soviet vessel Sputnik.

Uneducated people have developed their country: The Romans, the U.S., China, the Soviet Union.

All they needed was an enlightened elite or a small group of leaders in the Militaro-political and socio-economic fields.
When they come with a viable plan for development, the majority of the population supports and approves and follows.

When a country achieves economic power, it can buy, bully or commandeer the talents and the people it needs for its development.

The majority of scientists and intellectuals and Nobel laureates, in the US, come from other shores, mainly Europe, originally, but from Asia, nowadays.

Now, Hockey is very popular in the US. They bought most of the valuable Canadian players with a much higher salary and now control that game that was practically unknown in the 60s.

I said the country that first sent man to the moon.Yes, Yuri Gargarin is the first cosmonaut who orbits the earth ,but the landing on the moon by a human being was achivied by the good old U.S.A.It is true that a german scientist contributes to the development of the rocket,but The paradox is that the country that has more Nobel laureats; more patents ; The country of Thomas edison, Dale Canergie, The Wright Brothers,where so many inventions have been discovered is also the country with so many illiterates.

Sasaye

I don't own a Larousse,frankly I don't see the use of owning one.
Talking about illiteracy;in the United States a qualifier in often used 'fonctionally " as in "fonctionally illiterate".
These are people who can mouth phrases and don't undrestand a word they are saying.

About the literacy statistics,it helps if you are a large country.
The literacy rate in India is "only" 66%.
You have hundreds of millions of literate people in India ,but also hundreds of millions of illiterate ones.
India also produced more engineers than the whole continent of Europe combined.
God help the so called West if India had a literacy rate comparable to Barbados for example ,where the literacy rate is about 99%.

If countries like China and India had this kind of literacy rate ,that would impend the doom scenario of Tony Blair.
Blair said ,in a speech ,not too long ago that if the so called West doesn't do anything all the jobs in the world will be performed by China and India ,with their cheap labor.