literacy program in Zambia - World Vision

Question 1

SDG’s addressed

Answer 1

SDG 4 - quality education SDG 1- no poverty
SDG 2 - zero hunger
SDG 3 - good health and wellbeing
SDG 5 - gender equality.

Question 2

Purpose

Answer 2

-many children miss out on the opportunity to develop literacy skills
-lack of trained teachers and reading materials
-works to develop mother-tongue reading materials
-promote parental engagement in reading using mobile phone technology.

Question 3

implementation: funding

Answer 3

funded by USAID, World Vision and the Australian government(partnerships).

Question 4

implementation: program

Answer 4

Each week, stories are shared by community members in their mother tongue (ensuring it is culturally appropriate)

adapted by literacy specialists to make them age-appropriate and then sent out in SMS to parents’ phones so children can practice reading at home (meeting the needs of the community).

include questions so that parents can ask their children once they are finished. There are recorded version of these sotries for illiterate parents (culturally appropriate).

Question 5

implementation: other partner

Answer 5

Another partner, Breeze FM, a popular radio station, helped raise awareness of the program by asking community members to share their stories, either by text or dropping their stories off at the radio station (partnership).

Question 6

implementation: distribution

Answer 6

These stories are then read on air and then listeners are invited to call in for their favorite story (provide education).