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CLARE Youth Service are to under- take a comprehensive survey aimed at establishing literacy levels among students and staff.
The survey is being orgainsed as part of events for National Adult Literacy Awareness (NALA) Week, which runs until Friday, September 26.
All staff and students working in Clare Youth Service are being asked to take part in the survey, along with members of the public availing of in- ternet services at the Youth Centre, Carmody Street, Ennis.
Volunteers will record answers us- ing audio equipment, with a prize
also available for the most imagina- tive method used to record respond- ents answers.
The theme of this year’s NALA Week has been broadened to “the benefits of learning in the communi- ty’, chosen to highlight the benefits of improving literacy and numeracy levels among different communities in Ireland.
Theresa Larkin of the Adult Litera- cy Programme with the Clare Youth Service, explained the project is be- ing undertaken to help broaden the understanding of literacy problems.
“We want to raise awareness, first and foremost. There are a lot of peo- ple out there who experience difficul- ty reading and writing. There is such
a stigma attached to illiteracy and it is our job to get the best of people.”
She added, “We are always aware too that some of the people taking OL Na MONO MM OOCoMmCLED A VoavMB OCU TcAlMmOT-A/oMOODUUCS culty filling out forms, so the people asking the questions will have audio equipment with them. The prize will be for the most novel form of answer- ing, be it singing dancing, anything.”
Meanwhile eight students of Com- munity Employment Project with Clare Youth Service received their certificates for completion of FETAC level four training at a ceremony in the Old Ground Hotel on Friday supra al
The students completed their train- ing on the FAS supported scheme at
the Hospitality Academy in Doon- beg.
Tina Byrt of Clare Youth Service said the students had worked ex- tremely hard over the course of the project and were delighted to have received their certificates.