Literacy and Livelihoods for 445 Women in Nepal

This is continuation of our mother tongue literacy and livelihoods program.

What we wanted to do

• Enable 50 Limbu women to become literate in their own language using their traditional script  
• Encourage parents to support the use of Limbu in local schools
• Celebrate and raise awareness about Limbu language from with different segment of the community

What we did

• Orientation Program for project staff with participating Limbu villages.  Each village agreed to provide a suitable space for the participants to meet and select a local respected literate member of the community to be trained as the teacher for the literacy class.
• Two Limbu women who had graduated from High School received a five days training to teach adults to become literate.
•   We opened two centers with 47 women and even the government sent officials to look at the classes The community asked us to close the classes over the monsoon so they can prepare the fields and plant rice. As soon as the harvest is in classes will reopen.  We will provide refresher training to the teachers just before the classes resume in early September.

What happened

• 47 Limbu women can read and write simple texts in Limbu
• Limbu communities are aware of the importance of developing their own language
• Two local primary schools began mother tongue-based multilingual education

Next

Other Limbu communities have asked us to provide a program to help Limbu women to learn Nepali as well as there own language and implement income generation activities with the poorer families in the community.  Government offices asked us to provide technical support to introduce Limbu mother as a medium of instruction in beginning grades in local primary schools.  It would be wonderful if we can gather the resources to get these projects of the ground.

Thank you for your continue support to this project. Please continue check our website, https://www.ldcnepal.org/ for updates.