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MEMBERS OF THE LITERACY COMMUNITY are in an excellent position to
explain to policy-makers how literacy interacts with health care,
poverty, employment, economic development, crime prevention, social
justice, education, training, aboriginal rights and other contemporary
concerns. Since 1993, MCL has worked with other national literacy
groups to organize an annual “Literacy Action Day” to raise
support for literacy issues among federal politicians. LAD 99 will
take place on Thursday, February 18.
Once again, the other national literacy
organizations involved are: ABC
CANADA, la Fédération
canadienne pour l’alphabétisation en français
(FCAF),
Frontier
College, Laubach Literacy
of Canada (LLC), and the National
Adult Literacy Database (NALD). As in the past, literacy
practitioners and adult learners will visit Parliament Hill to discuss
literacy problems and solutions with MPs. This year, they will also
bring certain key messages to public officials in four areas of
federal government activity: health, employment, justice/corrections,
and aboriginal affairs. (continued) |
