FEMALE LITERACY:

ON-GOING ACTIVITIES:

• On-going female literacy classes: 3 classrooms, 50 students per class
• Provide periodic health education: nutrition, family planning
• Stone Soup demonstrations (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Field trip to Hawassa in 2014
• Opening of bank accounts for all female literacy students in 2015
• Organized training in poultry, bee-keeping, dairy farming and sewing through local government
• Start small scale enterprise demonstration project: chicken raising, bee-keeping

Read: blog FLP

FUTURE PLANS:

• Incorporate the basic health education materials developed into adult literacy curricula.
• Seniors provide story-telling and history to the “captive audience.”
• Invite professionals to present to the women’s classes about various topics relevant to them.
• Start small- scale poultry, honeybees and dairy projects.
• Provide home budgeting and small -scale enterprise training.
• Start small business classes and mentoring program.

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