Global Literacy Matters

ProLiteracy’s President and CEO David Harvey recently attended and spoke at the World Literacy Summit in Oxford, England. This event was a global initiative that brought together leading experts from organizations around the world to build greater awareness of the international literacy crisis and create a platform for delegates to collaborate, share ideas, learn from one another, and be united in a call to action and a plan for change. David Harvey spoke about ProLiteracy’s Literacy for Social Change methodology as model for integrating literacy into community development and lead a panel on global policy for adult education. The summit addressed the most pressing subjects and themes that affect one of most important issues facing our world today. One of the outcomes from the event was that delegates all signed the Oxford Declaration , a document re-affirming the commitment to achieving literacy through quality education as a means of breaking the cycle of poverty and building the e...

“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...