I’ve been inspired by World Literacy Day and the Education Team’s September focus on literacy. One of the books I’ve read this month is The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. In her novel, Kim describes the difficult life and dire poverty of the Kentucky hollers...
By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
Literacy Source is a Seattle non-profit organization that provides free basic education to low-income adults in the Seattle, Washington area. The agency reports that 1 in 6 adults in Washington...
There are now “more adults without literacy than there were 50 years ago, meaning that our efforts have not kept pace with population growth.”1 In response, UNESCO has staked out an ambitious goal of eradicating adult illiteracy by 2030. The campaign, announced in its recent UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy 2020-2025,2 is to focus on...
To culminate our focus on literacy, the Education Team was proud to host author Juliet Cutler on World Literacy Day, September 8, to discuss Among the Maasai as part of the Global Issues Book Discussion Series. Juliet’s presentation was poignant yet direct, and it gave all participants a glimpse into the...
Currently, the ERA remains an unfulfilled and unresolved issue for every American woman. The League of Women Voters US along with the Center for Women in Politics of Rutgers University, both non-profit, non-partisan organizations, have compiled a list of where House and Senate candidates stand on the...
This blog will provide a short glimpse into the submitted projects for the fourth Target Program cycle. The selection process kicked off on May 1, 2019 with the release of the Application Packet. Fifteen project proposals were received by the September 30, 2019 deadline. Participation across FAWCO was excellent, with submissions coming from six of the eleven FAWCO Regions plus...