Literacy Snapshots from the Field
This section details and captures some of the human interest and actual accounts of local literacy-related initiatives around the world. Facts and figures provide a convincing argument for the validity of literacy efforts, but these "snapshots" from literacy fieldwork will generate interest and vividly demonstrate what literacy means to local literates. In these accounts statistics and stories come together.
- Africa: UNESCO recognition: … SIL Intermediate Course for African leaders in Literacy and Education
- Cameroon: Books from Blank Pages
- Guatemala: Professional Development for Mayan Ixil Mother-tongue Educators
- Guyana: Wapishana Writer's Workshops and Literacy Tutor Training
- Jamaica: Formative Assessment of a Jamaica Creole Bilingual Education Project
- Mali: "From Asia to Timbuktu" - Bird Flu Materials for Languages in Mali, Africa
- Papua New Guinea:Abau Multilingual Education Program
- Papua New Guinea: Silk-screening School Books
- Papua New Guinea: STEP Course: Strengthening Tokples Education in Papua New Guinea
- Peru: Literature Promotion and Distribution—Quechua
- Peru: Spanish-as-a-Second Language Textbook Series
- Soloman Islands: Vernacular Newspaper Celebrates 200th Edition