Urgent appeal for funding for Phonics by Phone in Ghana!

[debbie]

We have sent out an eNewsletter with the information below to our friends around the world - and would ask anyone reading this message to consider visiting the links below and supporting this wonderful and worthy project please:

Dear Friends around the world,

I hope this email finds you and your families well – as we are here in England.

This eNewsletter is focused entirely on an important appeal that will make a huge difference to people and children living in remote parts of Ghana.

I was approached some time ago by ‘Educators International’ (and have since become an associate) to support their charitable and ambitious ‘Phonics By Phone in Ghana’ project.

To this end, we have created a purpose-designed Alphabetic Code Chart for Ghana which includes the numbering for 100 phonics lessons. I have provided 100 suggested phonics lessons that have been modified appropriately and recorded by Sheena Campbell to provide a complete beginners’ phonics course for teachers to deliver to their pupils - which is accessible by phone even in remote places.

So I am now appealing to my international friends, old and new, will you please support this amazing, worthwhile project?

This is a link: https://www.launchgood.com/project/help ... by_phone#/ to our crowdfunding effort which went live on Sunday.

We believe this is a rather special project, already having achieved impact at ultra-low cost. This is not just run-of-the-mill education delivery, but a set of world firsts, with potential world-wide application. We urge you to support some wonderful people working hard to bring literacy to volunteer teachers and children in Ghana.

31 days to go – and it’s all or nothing - If we don’t secure the full £15k by 7 August we get nothing.

May I draw your attention to the pen-pals aspect. The teachers are desperate for contact with the outside world. Getting them onto the internet, even via their very simple phones, makes that possible.

In the crowdfunding pitch (section 3) you will see a reference to “Teachers on the map”. Via the link above, you will find an interactive map of the Ghanaian teachers wanting a pen-pal. We don’t think anyone else has ever done this before.

Try clicking on various pins and you will see some of the teachers, where they live, what their classrooms and homes look like. There will be a similar personalised map of the sponsors/pen-pals – so they too will be “on the map”. Would any of you be willing to be a pen-pal yourself? And/or do you know any teachers – anywhere in the world – who might be interested?

Our planned assessment project goes hand in hand with the sustaining of the Phonics by Phone network. It works from an android phone app driving a micro-printer. Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYd5ak6 ... e=youtu.be

This video runs for just 17 seconds so this will not detain you long! Do you see what’s happening? The entire content has been randomised and each time you run the app the test comes out differently – but always valid.

Please do support this project and spread the word urgently as the fund-raising appeal has a long way to go in a very short space of time.

Thank you so much.

Love to all,

Debbie and the team at Phonics International.

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Thank you so much all those people who keep in touch with us at Phonics International - please spread the word and please, please consider supporting this amazing project.

[debbie]

I see over 100 people have viewed this thread.

I do hope that people will support this project.

It's really important that the target amount - £15,000 - is reached or it will all fall through.

Not only do we need people to be proactive at pledging and supporting the project, we also need people to spread the word and to try and get other people to pledge.

Please do this.

I can only begin to imagine what hard work has gone on in Ghana and in liaising with various organisations and specialists to reach the point reached thus far - but this is the big push to achieve some actual funding for the project.

I would be so grateful if people would read about the project and actually 'do something' about it.

Thank you!

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[debbie]

Please can you tell others about the Phonics by Phone in Ghana project and appeal to them to spread the word and to sponsor the project urgently.

See this page where you can find a pdf of the specially-designed 'English Alphabetic Code for Ghana' chart - the basis of understanding the English alphabetic code with its many sounds and their spelling alternatives - and also for understanding the 100 phonics lessons I've provided for this project.

The lessons introduce around 100 letter/s-sound correspondences and provide content at code, word and sentence level including common words which sometimes have rare or unusual letter/s-sound correspondences:


http://phonicsghana.net/about-phonics-by-phone/

[debbie]

And this is the audio phonics course of the 100 lessons:


http://phonicsghana.net/the-audio-phonics-course/

[debbie]

Here is the special Alphabetic Code Chart that we designed for Ghana with numbering for the code taught in the 100 lessons provided via recordings:


http://phonicsghana.net/wp-content/uplo ... ite_bg.pdf

[debbie]

See the blog posting at the 'International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction' site:

http://www.iferi.org/please-help-get-gh ... -by-phone/

Please support this project - only a few days left before the crowd-funding comes to a close and the target £15,000 has not yet been reached.

Now is the time to help if you can.

Thank you!

[debbie]

Thank you so much to all who supported the project in Ghana.

The target of £15,000 has been reached.

https://www.launchgood.com/project/help ... by_phone#/

WONDERFUL!

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