Adult literacy for Women
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Literacy is often said to be a key to development– but what does it really mean? Does it mean that those who can read and write are better placed to improve their lives? Or that once a community is routinely reading and writing, development can take off? Or does it mean that life is simply better when we can read books and write letters?
Many people still think of literacy as simply knowing the alphabet and being able to read alphabets on a page. This was the view about 50 years ago, when schools and adult literacy classes made sure that people knew their letters and could write them properly. Of course, literacy does involve knowing what the words say, but there is more to it than that.
