Adult Literacy Program

Helping moms read helps kids

In 2014, Caravan to Class launched a pilot program to teach basic literacy in two different local languages to the mothers of the village of Samdiar where we built a school the previous year.

Moms acquire basic literacy and it also reinforces the importance of education. These women take a break from their daily chores to spend three hours a day, three days a week to learn to read and write in the local language.

Test results showed strong results with over 80% achieving basic literacy.

We have expanded this program to ten other villages where we had built schools. Today, our Female Adult Literacy program is included with the package of support we provide when we commit to building a school in a village near Timbuktu. This program was awarded the prestigious Catherine Bertini Trust UN World Food Program grant for our work in Female Literacy in 2017.

Music by Fatouma Diawara

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  • “The program has changed our lives a lot in the sense that before the program, most of us really had no concept of reading and writing in our language. But today, thank God for this literacy program we can read, write and make calculations in Tamashek. This has not only given us such practical gifts, but as importantly ideas in our minds to go and seek out the Director and find ways of further learning.”

    Fadimata Mohamed, Female Adult Literacy program attendee in Tourari Village

  • “We are now committed to encouraging our girls to go to school. As a result of the literacy program, we have a lot of trust in our partners NorDev and Caravan to Class because they thought of our children and us.”

    Kadidiatou Wallet Mohamed Mossa, Female Adult Literacy program attendee in Tourari Village