You know, you push your head to learn something, but like it does get blank.

I never go back to school because the doctor tell me I really feel the effect of it. School was very good before I got in the accident, but I didn’t learn a lot. So my mother bring clothes to bury me ̶ a white dress with lace. I stay a whole week unconscious, so that throw me back a lot. I was carrying some clothes for some person and them, when a car come round the corner and hit me in the back of my head. Then I get in a accident at about eight years. I used to take the clothes around for the owners. My mother gave me to a washer when I was about seven years old and I had to wash heavy clothes by hand for her before I went to school. I lived in Shanty Town (now Beetham Gardens) and from small would collect bottles from the dump with my mother. A friend told me about this class and I get interested about it. This was a newspaper article on International Literacy Day 8th September 1994, later followed by an interview on TTT’s Dateline with Allyson Hennessy.Ībout two years back I came to class. We kick off our Trailblazer series with a two-part article featuring Yvonne Greenidge, the very first ALTA student to go public. More than two and a half decades on, ALTA looks back to celebrate those students in the 1990s who not only had the courage to address their inadequate literacy, but took the bold step to speak publicly of their literacy struggles and ALTA. Then, as now, the greatest hindrance to higher literacy in our nation was the stigma associated with low literacy. Despite the low literacy clearly evident within the school population, all adults were assumed to be literate. If your shipping destination is international, please contact us for a shipping quote.When ALTA started in 1992, ‘adult literacy’ was an unfamiliar term which only a few deemed relevant to Trinidad and Tobago. Our standard international shipping carrier and service is USPS, Priority Insured International. If your shipping destination is to any of the following locations, please contact us for a shipping quote. * The above shipping fees are valid for destinations within the continental USA. Our standard shipping is carried by USPS Retail Ground service. Our simple shipping fee structure, which is based on your order total, makes shopping with us easy, reliable and affordable. We will provide a quote for expedited service and do our very best to meet your needs. If more expedited shipping is desired, please let us know. For most items, shipping will occur within 1-7 days of purchase. We care about providing quality service to our customers and will ship as promptly and safely as possible.

Trailblazers by Yvonne Doll