Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny bmo­bile has re­newed its al­liance with NGO Moms for Lit­er­a­cy to off­set the tu­ition costs for a se­lect num­ber of stu­dents.

In a press re­lease bmo­bile’s Ger­ard Coop­er, Gen­er­al Man­ag­er, Shared Ser­vices, said ear­ly ed­u­ca­tion is key to al­low­ing stu­dents to lead mean­ing­ful and hap­py lives as adults.

“But it is al­so need­ed to com­bat many of the so­cial is­sues that con­tin­ue to plague so­ci­ety in T&T. We are very hap­py with the suc­cess­ful out­comes we have seen with Moms for Lit­er­a­cy and we call on oth­er or­ga­ni­za­tions to join us, or con­tribute to the cause in what­ev­er way they can. We do hope that lit­er­a­cy rates con­tin­ue to grow in T&T and that more peo­ple al­so rec­og­nize read­ing and writ­ing as a valu­able life tool and an en­joy­able pas­time,” Coop­er added. 

 Moms for Lit­er­a­cy, is a pro­gramme de­vel­oped in T&T, cater­ing to chil­dren who are slip­ping through the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem due to their need for a dif­fer­ent teach­ing style and pro­vides a sec­ond chance for chil­dren who re­quire a more hands-on ap­proach or ex­tra mo­ti­va­tion to im­prove their lit­er­a­cy skills, the re­lease ex­plained.

Pro­gramme Di­rec­tor and Founder, Am­ber Gon­za­les fur­ther ex­plained that the pro­gramme is not for chil­dren di­ag­nosed with learn­ing is­sues such as dyslex­ia but in­stead caters to the grow­ing num­ber of chil­dren who sim­ply are not keep­ing up in their cur­rent class­es.

“We are very hap­py that com­pa­nies like bmo­bile have al­lowed us to sur­vive in the pe­ri­od of the pan­dem­ic and tran­si­tion. We shift­ed to on­line pro­grams though we do con­tin­ue in-house learn­ing as it is pre­ferred by some par­ents and chil­dren too,” she added.