“Choose to Change” - Booklet now Available, Illustrating the Twelve Steps To Sobriety The publication «Choose to Change» was the idea of inmates in the Literacy Program at Brandon Correctional Institution. In following the Twelve Steps to Sobriety program through Alcoholics Anonymous, they wanted to produce a booklet that was meaningful to themselves and to others who have a problem with alcohol and/or drugs. After many discussions they decided to illustrate the «Twelve Steps To Sobriety» in a manner that would reflect the Aboriginal culture and would be appropriate for youth. This printing of «Choose to Change» has been made possible by a generous grant from the Retail Technology Team of CIBC. Cost:
$4.00 from each book sale will go the the Inmates Fund at the Brandon Correctional Institution and $1.00 will be retained by NALD for future printing. Contact: National Adult Literacy Database
(NALD) at: Or Write: NALD 
Letter of
Congratulations: Mr. Charles Ramsey Dear Mr. Ramsey: Please accept my warmest congratulations on the occasion of NALD being recognized internationally by winning an Honourable Mention from UNESCO’s International Reading Association Literacy Award. I was particularly interested to find that the www.nald.ca web site was the first Internet site ever to receive a UNESCO literacy prize recognition. Through the outstanding efforts of you and your co-workers the UNESCO literacy prizes have entered into the high technology world of telecommunications in the 21st century! Hopefully, the attention and recognition that NALD has received will stimulate a greater use of the Internet world-wide, in providing adult literacy services to the hundreds of millions of adults who remain illiterate and underserved throughout the world. Again, congratulations for the outstanding work by the NALD organization! Thomas G. Sticht 
Join the movement - Celebrate International Adult Learners’ Week everywhere in Canada from September 8 to 14, 2002 The Canadian Commission for UNESCO is pleased to invite all its partners as well as other governmental and non-governmental milieux, and the private sector to mark International Adult Learners’ Week everywhere in Canada from 8 to 14 September, 2002. Many partners have already shown their interest at participating in this first year of celebration and are developing activities to promote adult learning in all its forms, at all levels of society and throughout life. The proclamation of an International Adult Learners’ Week was adopted by UNESCO’s Member States, including Canada, at the 30th General Conference in 1999. International Adult Learners’ Week is currently celebrated in over 40 countries, and more countries continue to join the movement (See www.unesco.org/education/uie/InternationalALW/). Celebrate the pan-Canadian inaugural launch of International Adult Learners’ Week on Thursday, September 5, 2002, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Museum of Civilization, in Gatineau, Quebec. Watch the Web forum on the website in real time (www.adultlearning.unesco.ca), on adult learning throughout life. Simultaneous interpretation in French and English will be provided. Also available is the Information Kit - «A World of Possibilities Through Learning». To obtain a copy, contact the Canadian Commission for UNESCO , 350 Albert Street, P.O. Box 1047, Ottawa ON K1P 5V8, Tel. (613) 566-4414 or 1-800-263-5588, Fax: (613) 566-4405, info@unesco.ca |
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