Global Literacy Matters

“When mothers and daughters have access to opportunity, that’s when economies grow, that’s when governance improves.” – President Barack Obama, Remarks by the President at the Millennium Development Goals Summit. President Obama’s recent speech on the Millennium Development Goals reinforces the importance of the work ProLiteracy has been doing around the world for decades. The MDG’s are a range of eight international development goals established by world leaders at the UN on September 2000 to significantly reduce extreme poverty by 2015. ProLiteracy is working in 50 countries around Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East to bring literacy and education to adults at the local level. In conjunction with the Millennium Development Goals Summit, we laud President Obama’s dedication toward reshaping how the United States approaches international development and his commitment to investing in the health, education, and rights of women to empower the next generation of female en...

ProLiteracy is proud to announce that our partner, Operation Upgrade will be hosting the South African Adult Literacy Information Exchange in Durban, South Africa on September 7-8 2010. This exciting conference takes place on International Literacy Day and is designed to bring together those responsible for adult literacy from all over Southern Africa. Delegates from Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Bostwana, Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa, and the United States will be represented at the conference. Participants will have opportunities to share information and to collaborate on practices and challenges to implementing successful adult literacy programs. Our Vice President of International Programs, Lynn Curtis will be the keynote speaker, and will also be teaching a workshop after the conference for representatives of social organizations who are interested in learning about ProLiteracy’s model, Literacy for Social Change. The anticipated outcome is that groups will then be mobi...