Literacy and Life Skills

Literacy and Life Skills

CW4WAfghan is working to put literacy within the reach of adult women and out-of-school girls through basic literacy programs in a number of communities in Afghanistan. Literacy classes are often tied in with other skills opportunities, such as livelihoods, health and hygiene, psycho-social support, and more. For example, through women’s community centres operated by our partner, the Afghan Women’s Resource Centre, literacy learning is one part of a variety of opportunities and services made available in safe spaces for women and girls, including accelerated learning programs (to assist girls to transition into public schools), income-generation skills and microcredit, exercise classes and a drop-in gym, and libraries. Most of the literacy classes we support are provided with an Able Box Library.