The Media Development Center of Birzeit University (Palestine) and the Kusi Kawsay School are the other laureates (Peru).
At an award ceremony on November 19, 2021, during the 41st session of the UNESCO General Conference, each of the honorees will receive a US$50,000 prize.
The US$50,000 will be used by World Vision Ghana to provide a fully equipped e-library to one of our program communities, allowing many more children to read, learn, and develop.
The Unlock Literacy Project, which is an evidence-based, holistic approach to strengthening children's essential reading skills, was chosen by World Vision Ghana.
The model follows the early-exit bilingual literacy strategy, which holds that when children learn to read in their mother tongue, they learn to read faster and better.
Reading skills gained in the mother tongue aid youngsters in learning a second language more quickly.
The Unlock Literacy project approach also equips students in the early grades with the reading skills they need to think critically about local issues and take action in the community. The jury praised the project for going above and beyond standard literacy efforts by being action-oriented and encouraging peer-to-peer learning and a community-wide approach. It also praised its huge potential for scaling up and having a bigger influence in the country by collaborating with the official education system.
In Ghana, the Unlock Literacy project has touched 32,000 students in 217 schools and 180 villages in the last three years.
1650 teachers and 780 community volunteers are involved in the project, which is supporting 305 after-school reading groups. 250 titles of supplementary readers have been printed and delivered to 271 community book banks, totaling 254,000 copies.
Literacy is key to our child wellness objectives at World Vision," stated Dickens Thunde, National Director of World Vision Ghana.
"This award recognizes the dedication and hard work of reading club volunteers, teachers, and World Vision personnel."
We believe that it will motivate all of us to do even more to help Ghana's youngsters thrive."
This award is a wonderful endorsement of what we have learned: that when we train all of our teachers on research-based best practices regarding literacy intervention, our children will respond with stronger literacy skills and critical thinking," said Andrew Ofosu-Dankyi, World Vision's Education Technical Programme Director.
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