Energy Conference Special mention
ALTA was among 3 finalists at the 2015 Energy Conference Awards. ALTA received special mention in the category for the NGO Award for Good Governance.
View ArticleMarch issue of ALTA News
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View ArticleReading, It’s Life!
ALTA’s reputation, impact extends after award On April 11, 2014, the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence celebrated its tenth anniversary and as the 2012 Civic and Public Contributions...
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Local authors visit ALTA Reading Circles
ALTA has partnered with the Bocas Lit Fest to launch a new initiative to promote literacy through literature in a special series of readings by local authors. Some of Trinidad and Tobago’s best...
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ALTA Updates March 2016
ALTA Online ALTA Online is benefiting from the infusion of new energy, with work beginning on Version 2 of the application under new developer Dacion. Armed with many lessons learnt from experience...
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Mental Health Workshop
(L-R) Dr Peter Weller, ALTA Founder& CEO Paula Lucie Smith, Nisha Naira On Saturday March 12, 2016 ALTA hosted a Mental Health workshop for coordinators at our Belmont office training room. The...
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Reading Circle, a hidden treasure!
Hidden treasure lies beneath the surface of Reading Circle, certainly a lot more than I anticipated. My experience at St. Anthony’s College on a Wednesday evening has led me to believe that Reading...
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Reading, it’s Life: Tackling Literacy in T&T
A quick Google search of ‘literacy stats in Trinidad and Tobago’ will leave you pleasantly surprised, but also possibly confused about the need for an organization like ALTA. According to UNESCO...
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Farewell to Noble
In February, Noble Philip tendered his resignation from the ALTA board. Noble has given generously of his time and expertise to ALTA since October 2013, serving as chairman from February 2014. During...
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Tutor Training Course 2016
‘A new look at life and learning’ is how one trainee described ALTA’s Tutor Training Course this year. The six-day intensive course which took place in Belmont, Arima, San Fernando and Grenada saw...
View ArticleSpreading literacy on the football field
Last year, as a part of the anti-stigma campaign a new partnership was developed between ALTA and the Digicel TT Pro League. The pairing was long in coming, as Pro League CEO Dexter Skeene has long...
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Technology for Good 2016
On May 25th, 2016 non-profit organisations benefited from Microsoft’s Technology for Good Day, a joint initiative between the global technology giant, the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Industry and...
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Youth Lit 2015-16
ALTA’s Youth Lit programme is now in its eighth year! The programme which is done in partnership with NALIS aims to provide effective literacy instruction to students within primary or secondary...
View ArticleALTA’s Spelling Programme
Both reading and spelling require you to connect letters to speech sounds and to develop a visual memory of the letters in words. However when you read, you see the letters and have to work out what...
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Closing the curtains on our CSP project
The Citizen Security Programme (CSP) is an IDB funded initiative run under the auspices of the Ministry of National Security which aims to significantly impact the instance of violent crime in known...
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ALTA’s newest author
Judith pictured on the left at the evening of tea and readings ALTA’s Port of Spain West region has our very own author. ALTA Tutor and Ambassador, Judith Theodore, was recently one of the feature...
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This is my Story- ALTA’s 2016 campaign
Snapshots of our 2016 anti-stigma and student recruitment campaign Armed with the knowledge that stigma, fear and shame have stopped thousands of non readers around the country from coming to ALTA’s...
View ArticleAre all these examinations necessary?
Article first published in The Northerly titled ‘Testing, Testing 1,2,3 and…?’ Particularly for young children, examinations can be very stressful. So how many do we really need? In one study in the...
View ArticleALTA Reading Circle training 2016
It seemed as though we just couldn’t close the registration list on Saturday 1 October, when 47 reading guides attended the 2016 Reading Circle training at our Belmont office.This was a record number....
View ArticleThe Adult Literacy Initiative of Grenada begins classes
When Hurricane Ivan ravaged Grenada in 2004 it also dismantled ALTA’s programme there which began in 1999. In 2014, ALTA revisited the foundations which had been laid and trained tutors with the...
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