Kurtz Humanitarian Initiative for Southwest Honduras

 

LITERACY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT

 

In past years we have used a Vacation Bible School program to occupy the children who attend the medical and dental clinics with their parents.

 

In 2010 this program was elevated to a new level of improving reading skills. Dr. Seonhee Cho, Boo Elmore and a guide, Stephanie Erezo played games and read stories to the children. Their responses to the stories and games helped the children immensely in their reading capability. Dr. Cho is a professor in the Education Department at Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. She designed a workbook to teach the children beginning vocabulary words. Dr. Cho now has information about the baseline literacy level of children in Morocopay  and Puerto Grande. The development of a comprehensive literacy improvement program is a key element of KHISH activities in the future.

 

   The children eagerly participated in their first school classes