Sitting Down to Learn in Mozambique

New desks for the literacy class. Photo: INAS

National Institute of Social Action (INAS)

Eighty adults are learning to read and write, gaining life skills, and becoming empowered to overcome obstacles facing their families and the community, thanks to a new literacy center in Chali, Mozambique.

For many Mozambicans, education was disrupted during the nation's long civil war, but their desire to learn continues. In Chali, the National Institute of Social Action is creating the new literacy center. Church World Service is providing school equipment for the project, including student desks, teacher desks, and other furniture.

Along with literacy, the students are learning and gaining skills needed to forge better lives for their families. This community-based effort is a sign that times are changing--and for the better.

Support for Church World Service helps make this program possible.

Updated 10/3/2007

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