ADULT LITERACY EMPOWERS A GENERATION TO POSITIVE CHANGE
The Rotary Club of Bombay held a graduation ceremony for its Adult Literacy Program at SK Agro Hotel in Vikramgad on March 3rd, 2025. In this batch, the Rotary Club of Bombay successfully trained and certified 30,000 beneficiaries over a period of 3 months ending February 2025.
At the Graduation ceremony, the Prerikas were felicitated with certificates from the Rotary Club of Bombay for empowering community members with functional literacy. Beneficiaries were also awarded graduation certificates for successfully completing the course and attaining functional literacy. Many of them came up on stage to share their experiences and the impact the program has had on their daily lives and livelihood.
Apart from the numerous Beneficiaries and Prerikas, the attendees also included:
• Shekhar Mehta – Past Rotary International President
• Sandip Agarwalla – Past District Governor 3141
• Vineet Bhatnagar – Past President, Rotary Club of Bombay
• Satyan Israni – President, Rotary Club of Bombay
• Manish Reshamwala – President Nominee, Rotary Club of Bombay
• Runit Shah – Chairman, Adult Literacy
Rotary Club of Bombay The Adult Literacy Program aims to make adults functionally literate using the Each One Teach Many model.The cost of making an adult functionally literate is INR 275 per person only.
This includes the Primer Kit (NCERT approved) consisting of various books and flash cards, stationary, final exam facilitation costs, graduation certificates and administration costs.
The Adult Literacy Program is intended to promote and strengthen education of non-literate adults with an aim to help learners achieve functional literacy over a period of 3 months. Among other things, Learners acquire a vocabulary of around 700 key words, enough for day to-day needs such as reading destination signs on buses, filling in deposit and withdrawal slips in Banks, and newspaper headlines, besides being able to learn simple arithmetic adequate to maintain household and other accounts.
In addition to basic reading, writing and arithmetic, the introduction to the advantages of the Government Schemes such as Aadhar, Pradhan Mantri Yojanas, etc are taught to them. In a society plagued by poverty, casteism, gender inequality and poor education, Adult Literacy empowers a generation toward positive change within India.
Completion of the Adult Literacy Program results in confidence, employment, upliftment for family and society as a whole, improved political representation, smaller families, poverty reduction and so much more!
Since the inception of this initiative at the Rotary Club of Bombay, the club has successfully educated over 95,000 women.