One Girl learns to Read

“The single most important determining factor with regard to the global standard of living, to improving agricultural and environmental practices, to increasing the Gross National Product, to improving health care, to promoting involvement and gender balance in decision-making at all levels of society - is the education of a fifth-grade girl.

- Carol Bellamy, Executive Director - UN’s Children Fund

In a shanty town in Manila, Philippines one girl is learning to read. She and her classmates are being taught using a LEI – Tagalog (Pilipino) primer/basic reader. The class typically meets in the morning so as to avoid the afternoon rains.

In today’s economy, its not who can speak that separates the haves from the have-nots. It’s who can read. Worldwide, one billion adults are illiterate two-thirds of them are women. Compassionate LEI missionaries are working diligently to address this enormous opportunity.