Environmental-Based Illiteracy Eradication in Owata Village, Bone Bolango Regence, Gorontalo Province

The program of Student Community Service – Community Empowerment (henceforth called as KKN-PPM) aims to eradicate illiteracy through the environment as a learning source in Owata Village, BulangoUludistrict, Bone BolangoRegency, Gorontalo Province. The environment as a learning source due to the consideration of potential and local wisdom in Owata Village towards the environment as stated in the vision of this village that emphasizes the economic strengthening throughgreen human resources. The target to be achieved from this activity is that the illiterates can read and write based on their observation to the surrounding area as well as to reduce the illiteracy rate in Owata Village. This activity is carried out by providing socialization, training, and observation to the environment as a source of vocabulary and sentence acquisition for reading and writing purposes. In addition, the training will involve the supervisors and students in motivating and developing the community to recognize and understand letters, syllables, and sentences so that it can be implemented in writing the discourse about their surrounding area. The results of this KKN-PPM program are the decreased illiteracy rate and the increased knowledge and skills of Owata Village community in writing and reading based on their environment so that it can be a means in emerging their love and awareness of environmental conservation.