Literacy Workshop

July 2005

I graduated today from the Literacy Workshop. We celebrated with a graduation service and for the graduation meal we had goat stew, rice and then my favorite, chocolate cake to top it off! Today was the last day of the two week workshop. What did we do at the workshop? Two Mocambicans translated Bible stories from Portuguese to their African language of Makhuwa. The Bible stories were already written and published in Portuguese form. Once the men translated them into their language of Makhuwa, another lady, Dora, and I typed them into Microsoft Word and then transferred them into Microsoft Publisher. After several revisions and double check we then printed out the finished product.

While we were translating these stories into Makhuwa, there were also people translating into 3 other African languages. There were approximately 15 or so people participating in this workshop.

It was a busy two weeks but it was very good, too, to see a finished product and know that the Africans who speak these different languages will have now have access to Bible stories in their heart languages.