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- 1. Internationalisng Young People In Wales & Lesotho Sharon Flint
- 2. Wales has been linked to Lesotho since 1985. Partnerships between schools, hospitals and communities.
- 3. LESOTHO “The Mountain Kingdom”
- 4. Wales-Lesotho Link Similar size to Wales - exports water to South Africa
- 5. LESOTHO KEY FACTS Beautiful & peaceful but deeply afflicted country with a serious HIV/AIDS pandemic governance is relatively stable with a constitutional monarchy poverty and drought means nearly half the country dependent on food assistance
- 6. EDUCATION LINKS • LEGACY OF SCHOOL LINKS WITH MANY RECIPROCAL VISITS • 10TH YEAR OF THE LESOTHO TEACHER PLACMENT PROGRAMME • SINCE 2013 LESOTHO LITERACY LEAP HAS BEEN WORKING IN 2 DISTRICTS
- 9. 2013 South African Reading Scheme New curriculum resources
- 10. Qacha’s Nek Learner reading assessment Support workshops & modelling
- 11. Quthing Interactive reading strategies Interactive Phonics training
- 13. School Aid 2014 Distributing books in Quthing Transporting the donated books
- 14. LTPP 2014 Better Reading Partnership Teaching partnerships 6 teachers - 7 schools New links New partnerships
- 15. In Wales Donating books Supporting International Literacy Day in September 14 old and new link schools were involved – hundreds of books & resources are on their way to Lesotho
- 16. Every child in Lesotho learns about Wales Every child in Wales should learn about their LINK country whether through circle time, an assembly, a Dolen Cymru workshop or a curriculum project.
- 17. • Become an AFFILIATED SCHOOL for £20 a year to share our resources and get involved in events
- 18. Link with a school
- 19. • Sign up for the LESOTHO RUGBY ACADEMY • £300 will pay for a 10 week programme in a Basotho School
- 20. Enhance & exchange your teaching skills • Sign up to the Literacy Leap project and your pupils and staff can help create sustainable change in Basotho schools
- 21. Apply for Connecting Classrooms • Sustained visits can allow young people to be part of the exchange in both countries
Editor's Notes
- Lesotho "The Mountain Kingdom"Completely landlocked by South AfricaLesotho is also the only country in the world where all of the land lies above 1000 metres. It has the highest low point of any nation - 4,500ft - and as a result is sometimes known as "The Kingdom in the Sky". Much of the population of 1.8 million live in rugged, mountainous terrain, only accessible on foot or horseback. Lesotho was united as a nation in the early 19th Century by King Moshoeshoe the Great. Basutoland, as it was then called, successfully defended itself from the British, the Zulus and the Boers. In 1868 it became a British Protectorate before gaining full independence almost a hundred years later on October 4, 1966. Basutoland was then reborn as Lesotho.
- The Mountain Kingdom is a peaceful, beautiful but currently, alas, also deeply afflicted country. In 2000 Lesotho's King Letsie declared the HIV/AIDs pandemic a "national disaster". With one of the world's very worst rates of HIV/AIDS infection, Lesotho is facing a long term development emergency on a scale never witnessed before. Life expectancy at birth has been cut from 60 years in 1991 to a staggering 40 years now. The survival of the Basotho people is at stake. Naming HIV/AIDs as Lesotho's 'number one enemy', both The King and Prime Minister have been HIV-tested in public to encourage people to take tests. Despite this high profile acknowledgement, Lesotho is still being crippled by the pandemic and the combination of that with poverty and drought have rendered more than half the country dependent on food assistance. Unemployment levels are extremely high and the UN describes 40% of the population as 'ultra-poor'.