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Practical articles on how to support child and adult literacy
2005
Literacy helps ensure clear communication between people and God through reading the Bible, and between individual people and their neighbours
Jasaiah Akhande is 21 years old and lives in Panchdongri village. Like many Korku girls from poor families, she had no education
With a population of 15 million, Cameroon has an official literacy rate of 63%. Several communities have formed their own local language committees to help people learn to read and write
Literacy is often said to be a key to development – but what does that really mean?
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Mothers’ Union members and workers worldwide know that a lack of literacy skills is one of the main problems facing women and girls, especially in rural areas
Exploring different editorial techniques and best practice for translation projects
LABE (Literacy and Adult Basic Education) is an organisation based in Kampala working in 14 districts of Uganda with experience in promoting literacy rights. Here they share some of their experience and help us to consider the basic steps to follow when starting a literacy programme
Literacy skills allow the small numbers of Énxet speakers to participate more fully and with growing confidence in the decisions that affect their lives and those of their people
Where literacy training is available, trained facilitators are the best people to pass on these skills. However, a basic understanding of literacy training may be very helpful to parents and to the family and friends of people learning literacy skills
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