TITLE: Long-term love of life-long learning

NAME OF ORIGINAL TELLER: Pamela McLean

NAME OF LISTENERS/ UNDERSTANDERS: Chris R. Kasangaki

1. LANDSCAPE

A rural area of high unemployment and low wages. Two children, goats and chickens and a very poorly paid husband.

2. DWELLING PLACE (precise location where action occurred)

I was at a hotel doing tedious boring menial work and I was bored out of my mind. I felt I had to make a change in my life situation.

3. CHARACTERS

Myself, my husband, my two children.

4. CHALLENGE

Need to escape from the unskilled female labour market.

5. ACTION

And the turning point was the moment when I realised the opportunity to study through the open University. Learnt about distance learning, use of computers and developed confidence and skills to become an independent learner.

6. RESOLUTION

Thanks to the “outreach” of ICTs, I am exploring how people trapped like I was - but in rural Nigeria - can have the opportunities I had - to stretch their minds and become independent learners. I am enjoying learning and continuing to learn.

7. IMAGES AND OBJECTS

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