Since this project began in 2000 more than 4500
women have been trained including women from Darfur and the Nuba
Mountains of whom 2500 passed the government’s literacy
examination. We are currently active in the following areas thanks to the
support of Together for Sudan partnerships with the UK Department for
International Development (DfID) and Manos Unidas, a Spanish charity.
| Location |
Classes |
Students |
| Khartoum area |
4 |
112 |
| Nuba Mountains |
9 |
225 |
Darfur is a place of great tragedy and suffering. But there, as
in other parts of Sudan, people, especially women, are eager to improve
their lot by learning to
read and write. In 2007, Together for Sudan trained a number of literacy
teachers in Darfur with a view to starting up literacy classes, with
initial funding from Refugees International Japan.
Together for Sudan now has 14
trained teachers, each with the potential to set up a class of 20-25
people in the refugee camps as and when security conditions permit.
Literacy is a basic
building block of civil society and we need urgently to take this
initiative forward by raising funds for teachers’ salaries.
Women
gathered for a literacy class
Together for sudan has aspirations to extend it's literacy program to South Sudan where there is much need for literacy. Funding is currently required to initiate this project.
As things stand the priority for literacy training is in the Khartoum area.