Despite her advanced age, Grandma Belinha is
stronger than the difficulties she faces, and 3 days a week she attends the
first year of the Literacy course in Banhine. Although struggling
with the Portuguese language, she’s one of the 3 top students at Maths!
The ALG Literacy courses aim to help women like
Grandma Belinha and many other moms, who had to quit studying to raise children
or provide care for ill family members. Our goal is to teach them how to read
and write so they can help their children studying. Learning to write their
names, to read in Portuguese or to learn how to add and subtract numbers,
enable these women to stimulate their children’s and grandchildren’s education
and also helps them to improve their family business for which they are the
main driving force.
For ALG literacy goes well beyond learning to
read and to write, it provides personal dignity to working underprivileged
women. It is a rural developing factor essential for the communities of the
families we support.
For only c. £20 per beneficiary ALG pays for the
basic education of young adults allowing them to increase their employability
and self-esteem with direct impact on their children’s education.
ALG has been offering this festive calendar to all ALG friends since 2011. This year you can also print a high definition version for only 1£!
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