This month, the Ed Team is focusing on Equal Access, SDG Targets 4.2, 4.3 & 4.5. In conjunction with this, I read Bluestockings by Jane Robinson. The book describes, in meticulous detail, the remarkable story of the first women in the UK to fight for a university education. It starts in 1694–97 with...
The Education Team celebrated the International Day of the Girl Child on October 8 with a presentation by one of its members, pilot Rachna Reiter. Rachna walked viewers through the path she took to become a pilot and the triumphs and challenges of being a woman in a career typically dominated by men.
I’ve been inspired by World Literacy Day and the Education Team’s September focus on literacy. One of the books I’ve read this month is The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. In her novel, Kim describes the difficult life and dire poverty of the Kentucky hollers...
By 2030, ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, achieve literacy and numeracy
Literacy Source is a Seattle non-profit organization that provides free basic education to low-income adults in the Seattle, Washington area. The agency reports that 1 in 6 adults in Washington...
There are now “more adults without literacy than there were 50 years ago, meaning that our efforts have not kept pace with population growth.”1 In response, UNESCO has staked out an ambitious goal of eradicating adult illiteracy by 2030. The campaign, announced in its recent UNESCO Strategy for Youth and Adult Literacy 2020-2025,2 is to focus on...
To culminate our focus on literacy, the Education Team was proud to host author Juliet Cutler on World Literacy Day, September 8, to discuss Among the Maasai as part of the Global Issues Book Discussion Series. Juliet’s presentation was poignant yet direct, and it gave all participants a glimpse into the...