Literacy: Our Approach

Literacy: Our Approach

Development and Literacy Partners International helps under-resourced language groups positively transform their communities through written language development and literacy, and by translating transformational written materials and ideas into their language.

We facilitate literacy by:

  • Promoting reading in local languages
  • Determining the need for language development through linguistic survey
  • Developing writing systems for unwritten languages
  • Developing sustainable literacy programs, training literacy educators and expanding the capacity for literacy education
  • Providing access to helpful reading materials in the local language
  • Promoting the writing of local oral traditions and stories that promote healthy community values
  • Developing written materials in the local language that promote health, community values, and economic development
  • Translating literature from other languages that promotes the welfare of the community