Held in Church Square, Pretoria, on Friday September 8, the event was meant to highlight the importance of both literacy and of human rights. The state issues instructions in written regulations, statutes and correspondence. Not knowing how to read places citizens outside this world of law, forcing citizens to depend on third party translators.
Adults find themselves isolated and disempowered within society.
This is where Project Literacy comes in. Each reader deals with a different human rights issue, such as Aids, women's rights, socio-economic rights and refugees. The intention of the readers is to help educationally disadvantaged adults increase their awareness of their rights as citizens and to further literacy skills. Asmal took the opportunity to award certificates to some learners who had successfully passed literacy courses. Attending the event was Rainy Makhubela from Soshanguve near Pretoria, an Abet teacher at Khutso Satellite school.