Family Literacy Initiative

The Family Literacy Initiative addresses a crisis that underlies all of Liberia’s challenges — one of the lowest literacy rates in Africa. This project takes a family approach to literacy. It recognizes that parents are a child’s first teacher.

FOL partnered with the international evidence-based program, Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY), to bring this program to Liberia.  Our other partner is the WE-CARE Foundation in Monrovia.  As a respected Liberian not-for-profit organization that publishes supplemental reading materials and trains teachers, WE-CARE is the implementing Liberian partner for the program.

Together with HIPPY-International and WE-CARE, we are committed to a program that will:

(1) increase parents’ literacy levels along with their children’s, and

(2) have a lasting and sustainable two-generation impact.

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COVID-19 Pandemic Response

While aspects of this project are on hold during the pandemic, WE-CARE is still checking in with FLI families and distributed materials so they can keep up their literacy skills! We were also able to distribute hand washing buckets and related supplies to 200 families participating in FLI.

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FLI Reports