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Carl Triplehorn
One of the challenge of

One of the challenge of addressing the needs of minority populations is proper assessment and baseline. Youth, especially minorities, articulate their desire for 'education' . In most cases, this has not been disaggregated to understand and quanitfy whether this is re-entry into primary school, secondary school or formal/non-formal vocational education. The latter is complicated as experts in youth development state the biggest hinderance to youth's completion of vocational activities is lack of literacy and numeracy skills. A propler need analysis including literacy survey is essential to actually meeting the needs of minority youth.

The language needs of minorities, especially adults, is over looked, A signficant obstacle to minorities access to education and participation in society is language. Training in a second language can be challenging and a strenghth of emergency education organizations.

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