Award winner and author, Nontuthuzelo Conjwa-Dia from Misty Mount in Libode, confirmed that she had launched her book Engaging Families on Youth Realities, subtitled Family Resource and Handbook.
This book was launched at Amazwi Language Museum in Makhanda, recently.
Conjwa-Dia said it consists of her personal experience as a grandmother and a mother, and indicated her book was awarded “best awareness book” by Behind the Book Awards, working together with Pietermaritzburg Municipality, in September last year.
According to her, this book will help to mend those broken hearts and give advice to pick up the pieces and move on. Conjwa-Dia said it is good for educators so that they can understand the backgrounds of their learners, and also parents will learn a lot from it.
According to her, all other institutions, like churches, follow on what the parents have done to their children.
She confirmed that she is also pushing the movement of reviving families as primary institutions of learning and development, and she is working around various topics that are covered in the book.
She said that the book is calling for a bigger conversation where they revive family units to be more engaged, to take their family role as the primary institution for learning and development.
“Values-based character is built at home; failing the young people at home results in bad behavioural patterns at schools that impact badly on teaching and learning, for which the school is designed. Movement in a nutshell is empowering families to engage young people at family level.”
