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Zizo Dingiswayo from the Purple Class at Megan Du Plessis Special Needs Centre, demonstrating her basic Life Orientation skills she has learnt at school. At the Megan Du Plessis Special Needs Centre, they do more than just teach their learners academics. “Teaching our students some basic life skills such as cleaning, baking, cooking and gardening, are also a standard practise …

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Reading is something that people do daily in the Coastal Bend. They read signs, read books, and read emails. But according to the National Center for Education, as of 2003, 17% of people in Nueces County lack in basic literary skills. One local organization, Corpus Christi Literacy Council is pulling those books off the shelf and …