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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Click here for the Literacy Landscape Paper
FLI Reports
2020 YEAR END REPORT
Family Literacy Initiative News
Recruitment and Verification Improved for the Family Literacy Initiative
The Bracken School Readiness Assessment was used to evaluate the skills of 162 children prior to entering the FLI program. [...]
WE-CARE Adjusts Family Literacy Initiative to Keep Children Learning during COVID-19
Our partner, WE-CARE has taken great steps to ensure the continuation of the Family Literacy Initiative (FLI), despite the trying [...]
All families in Literacy Initiative receive supplies to prevent the spread of coronavirus
Two hundred families received literacy materials and hand washing supplies thanks to our partner, WE-CARE, and the generous donations of [...]
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We-Care/Friends Of Liberia/HIPPY Family Literacy October 2018- January 2019 Reporting
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