We’re going to be busy celebrating literacy this fall. And, we hope you’ll join us.
September 21-27 is NWT Literacy Week. Our theme this year is Literacy: Our health depends on it!
There are a number of links between literacy and our health. We learn better when we are healthy; for example, when we have a good breakfast. Health literacy is also having the information and access to the services and programs we need to make informed decisions about our health.
As well, we also know that literacy and education levels affect our income and work opportunities. Employment and higher incomes contribute to better health outcomes.
In Yellowknife there will be two brown bag lunches to talk about the links between health and literacy. For more information about NWT Literacy Week events go to our website at www.nwtliteracy.ca. We would like to include your Literacy Week activities on our site, so let us know about the plans in your community.
We created new health literacy resources to help communities celebrate NWT Literacy Week. They are also on our website. We’ll have a Facebook contest and will discuss health and literacy on Twitter. Take part in these activities and those planned in your community.
Literacy Week will be barely over when we welcome our special guests for the PGI for Literacy October 6-9, 2014. The PGIs (Peter Gzowski Invitationals) for Literacy were started by CBC broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, to celebrate literacy in all its forms and raise money for literacy programs.
Please consider donating to the 2014 NWT PGI for Literacy. The money stays in the north and supports community-based literacy projects. You can donate on our webpage.
You can get tickets at the Northern Arts and Culture Centre (NACC) for the two different fundraising concerts on Tuesday, October 7 and Wednesday October 8. One way to donate is by matching the concert ticket price with a donation when you purchase your tickets from NACC.
Our national and northern PGI guests will visit schools in Ndilo, Dettah, Yellowknife and Behchokǫ̀. Don’t miss the community feast in Dettah on Monday, October 6. Click here for 2014 PGI information.
Literacy changes lives. Be a part of the change by celebrating literacy this fall and its role in our individual, family and community wellbeing.
