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
Happy Anniversary! FOL Celebrates 30 Years.
It was about this time of the year 30 years ago that Liberia’s Peace Corps volunteers started a little social [...]
FLI Receives Learning Materials from HIPPY USA
At the request of our wonderful Family Literacy Initiative (FLI) partner, Dr. Miriam Westheimer, Director of HIPPY International, HIPPY USA [...]
Please Partner with Us to Improve Literacy in Liberia!
Christmas 2015 is over, but the opportunity to make a lasting difference this tax year remains. Your donation to Friends [...]
First Family Literacy Initiative Training a Success!
The initial training of program coordinators and home visitors has been completed successfully, and the Family Literacy Initiative (FLI) is [...]
Family Literacy Initiative Launches in Monrovia
FOL’s Barbara Kamara and HIPPY-International director Dr. Miriam Westheimer have arrived in Liberia to launch the Family Literacy Initiative (FLI). [...]
Family Literacy Initiative Ramps Up
FOL has launched its most ambitious education project to address the literacy crisis in Liberia. Almost half of Liberians cannot [...]