Together for Sudan

                                              UK Charity No 1075852

Women's Literacy

The Women's Literacy Project

Literacy is a key skill for all women

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.

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.

Sudanese women leaning to read and write at Um-Bedda

Praise for Together for Sudan

A senior Sudanese official recently praised our work to help eradicate illiteracy among Sudanese women.
Please help us continue this vital work.

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