Female Adult Literacy Education (A Raining Opportunity)

Although March was a busy month for the women doing Adult Literacy training, but what they learned through the training has been far more rewarding.

​The Adult Literacy Training has a huge impact on the women who come from different villages. For most women, it was the first ever experience of going out of their village and coming to PEP for training. They were very nervous on their first day of training, and many were only holding a pencil for the first time. However seeing this scenario did not let the trainers down, but with constant encouragement the trainers were helping women to speak, read, and write. The first day of the training began with a group of women who had no idea what they could learn, but the last day of the training there were women who were proudly showing copies of their writing to each other, and sharing much about their experience about the overall Adult Literacy Training.

Speaking their heart out

​Naheed

My children were not very supportive of the idea of me wanting to get an education, although all of my children go to a school. But now that I've come here, I can tell my family what I learned, and what I will never forget is that everyone believed in me. 

Baby

​My community thinks I am an old women and can't do much, but I have learned to write in these few days of training. When I go back, I am determined to tell other women that education has no age. It is open for anyone and everyone who is willing to gain knowledge.

What does the  future of Adult Literacy Education hold for the women of rural Sindh?

The Female Adult Literacy education is like raining opportunity for women in rural Sindh. This is a raining opportunity because women will have long term benefits of education. In many villages, women are still considered as weaker gender who don't not have equal rights as men do, but through the Adult Literacy Education, the women will have their own understanding and knowledge which will open up a way to have their own opinions, and voice. They will have respect, their own identity, and their own position.

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During the Female Adult Literacy Training, Bhagwani shared her amazing testimony of how learning to read and write is helping her maintain records of the Women's Empowerment Program meeting (Which were previously maintained by her brother in-law). She writes all the reports by herself which has developed confidence in Bhagwani for what she has learned.

​Further, Bhagwani shared that the Bible stories read in the devotions have deeply inspired her, and she is now using these stories to motivate the members of the Adult Literacy Center in her village as well as for her own personal development.