ABOUT

Where We Work

In the US and around the world, everyone has the right to literacy.

Making America’s communities stronger through the advancement of adult literacy

ProLiteracy provides the best adult literacy resources to support programs across the US.

With 48 million adults unable to read at a functioning level, low literacy burdens every community in the US with lower wages, lost taxes, higher health care costs, and increased incarceration rates. Our leading resources, materials, and grant opportunities give adult literacy programs in all 50 states the ability to create change. As a respected voice in the field, our influence on local, state, and national policymakers helps raise awareness and increase funding for adult literacy.

Our International Work

Globally, 763 million people cannot read. We work with partners in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East to increase literacy everywhere. Through innovative instruction, we promote fundamental literacy skills, critical thinking, cultural expression, and learner-initiated action in the context of solving local economic, human rights, health, and environmental issues. 

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Partnerships worldwide promote literacy for social change

We work with 32 partners around the world to develop teacher training and literacy lessons contextualized to the needs of the community. By educating communities, we are able to create sustainable solutions to some of the most serious social and economic problems facing our world.

International Literacy Facts

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Economic Self-Reliance

(agriculture, microenterprise,microcredit, vocational training, and community infrastructure projects)

Health

(clinics, medicine chests, and training in preventive health practices)

Digital Literacy

(literacy programs that incorporate the use of e-books, tablets, and digital content for training and instruction)

Family

(adult education centers and family literacy programs)

Gender Empowerment

(projects promoting gender equity and women’s leadership)

Publishing

(adult literacy materials developed by New Readers Press/ProLiteracy being used with strategic partners to strengthen education programs around the world)

BENIN World Reader
BURKINA FASO World Reader
CAMEROON World Reader
CÔTE D'IVOIRE World Reader
EGYPT Association of Anba Mussah (ANBA)
GHANA PAACE, Worawora
GHANA World Reader
KENYA Kenya Adult Learners' Association
LIBERIA Imani House
NIGER MICA
NIGERIA UNVA
NIGERIA World Reader
RWANDA SEVOTA
SIERRA LEONE SLADEA
SOUTH AFRICA Connect Network
UGANDA Kiddawalime
Zambia World Reader
ZIMBABWE World Reader
IRELAND World Reader
AFGHANISTAN Roqia Center for Women's Rights
CAMBODIA Non Timber Forest Products (NTFP)
INDIA Laubach Literacy Educational Trust
IRAQ Halemoon
PHILIPPINES World Reader
NEPAL Prisoner Assistance Nepal
COLOMBIA CLEBA
COLUMBIA Fundación para el Bienestar Humano (FBH)
ECUADOR AMJUPRE
HAITI AyitiKonseVet
MEXICO PLAMAC
MEXICO CEP
PANAMA Centro de Estudios y Acción Social Panameño (CEASPA)
PANAMA Coordinadora Nacional de Mujeres Indígenas de Panamá (CONAMUIP)