Institute for International Cooperation of the Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband (DVV) has launched an online platform for professional adult educators in Malawi.
The platform, ‘Moja’, which is the Swahili word for ‘one’, is designed to support digital collaboration in African adult learning and education.
Moja, according to DVV, was created after the institute and its African partners identified the need for adult educators in Africa to have a universally accessible online portal to pool collective insights, experiences, resources and wisdom to advance adult education and learning.
The launch of the platform in Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, brought together scores of stakeholders in the adult literacy sector, as they underwent an orientation on how the it operates.
The portal includes articles, news, links and other resources that are easy to search, download and read.
In his remarks, DVV Regional Director in Southern Africa, David Harrington, described the platform as very important.
‘This is a resource that has long been lacking in Africa. Moja will address a gap in the African adult education community’, a statement from DVV quoted Harrington as saying.
‘It will provide a space for people to share and learn with and from one another, and to draw on the rich tradition and practice of adult education that has evolved in African contexts’.
Harrington called on adult learning and education professionals in Malawi to join ‘Moja community’.
‘People must register. It is free. They must sign up. We want them to engage with others to share what they are doing in adult education’, he added.
‘We want to see adult education becoming more visible. People must reach out and learn from neighbouring countries’.
The Moja portal also has a library of insights, experiences and accounts of promising practices from across Africa that adult educators may investigate and adopt to enhance their own professional practices.
Also speaking during the launch in Lilongwe, Malawi government’s Deputy Director for Community Development, Charles Mkunga, said networking through the Moja platform will help improve the country’s models of delivery of education to adult literacy learners.
Source: DVV International
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