LIBTRALO Conducts Training of Trainers Workshop
– LIBTRALO Conducts a series of Training of Trainers Workshop in Nimba and Bomi Counties. At last the first of the long delayed series of workshops to Train Mother Tongue Literacy Trainers got underway in the Maan Language communty in Lower Nimba County on June 3 and was concluded on the 5th in the GbeyeeContinue reading LIBTRALO Conducts Training of Trainers Workshop
the power of mother tongue literacy
Mrs. Elizabeth Nimley is a housewife, petty trader and has two surviving children with several grandchildren. Elizabeth loves to encourage community women to be active in the activities of the church as she herself is an usher in the church. Elizabeth went to her husband’s office one day to see him and the receptionist giveContinue reading the power of mother tongue literacy
Mother Tongue Literacy Booms
A Bible translator, Charles Luogon has been working assiduously in Maan and in Lower Nimba County in literacy. He graduated 32 learners and potential literacy teachers in Duo and surrounding towns in October 2019 and graduated another class of 39 learners in Zan-Baanla Town in January 2020. He has also brought his literacy activities underContinue reading Mother Tongue Literacy Booms
LIBTRALO Staff Capacity Building
As LIBTRALO grows in scope and forms partnerships with other entities of like operations, it befits our purpose to make the workforce a more efficient and productive one. In light of this, LIBTRALO has embarked on a training scheme to enhance the performance of its staff. To realize this goal, three personnel were earmarked toContinue reading LIBTRALO Staff Capacity Building
LIBTRALO TURNS TWENTY-TWO
The Liberian Translation and Literacy Organization (LIBTRALO) – an offspring of The Institute for Liberian Languages (TILL), was formalized and launched as a non-political, non-governmental and non-profit organization in Monrovia, Liberia on September 29, 1995. We have the mandate to do translation, literacy, linguistic research and orthography development so as to provide the opportunity forContinue reading LIBTRALO TURNS TWENTY-TWO
Literacy in Churches
Literacy in Churches is a literacy project that LIBTRALO is implementing on a pilot basis with Liberian churches and local communities, but with funding from Lutheran Bible Translators (LBT) based in Concordia, USA. This one year project commenced in January, 2017 and is expected to conclude in December, 2017. To date, there are 24 literacyContinue reading Literacy in Churches
LBT Officials Visit Liberia
The Pragmatism of Written Language
A missionary came to Liberia for the sole purpose of doing literacy in a language in the southeastern part of the country. What prompted this move was predicated upon a request made years earlier by the leader of a prominent church that the Holy Bible be translated into his mother tongue. A high proportion ofContinue reading The Pragmatism of Written Language
LIBTRALO Participates in Peace Corps Pre-Service Training
LIBTRALO has, for the second year running, actively participated in Peace Corps Liberia’s pre-service training (PST) for Peace Corps Trainees or Volunteers. A LIBTRALO team that comprised fourteen language and cross-cultural facilitators (a female and thirteen males), facilitated topics in Liberian English and culture, and indigenous language classes for fifty-six Peace Corps Trainees. The trainingContinue reading LIBTRALO Participates in Peace Corps Pre-Service Training
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