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A culture sensitive approach to the gender question
values are considered very important, and most
women education and empowerment programmes
the gospel of ‘Peace in the family’. The men folk
are aA
aFamily aNGO apreach made to accept the fact that an educated woman in an
to the family, and the women who become economi-
empowered are encouraged to use their resources to
their families.
nasset
ncally nsupport
A development-oriented view of literacy and education
iA NGOs studied promote the development, the emankiThe
kcipation, and the full empowerment of women. However,
and education are seen (correctly) as the founda-
and the bedrock of it all. This view has informed the
hierarchy kliteracy ktion
of women’s learning needs that most of the
have tried to promote, namely:
Basic literacy in the mother tongue, for the
rNGOs
r
rapid acquisition of reading–writing–calculation
in the language of the women’s daily life.
Basic literacy in French, for exposure to the official
language of government business in the country.
Functional literacy: reading–writing–calculation
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with ILO, which involved: (a) schooling for
orphaned young girls from very poor families; and (b)
education (literacy, gardening, poultry, other
sarrangement s100 skills) for 100 over-aged, but not yet
girls.
the size, the functions, and the level of compeasnon-formal
aincome-generating
amarriageable of these NGOs, they have been able to enlist the sup-
of persons and institutions responsible for governance
the local level. These include traditional and religious
FaWhatever Ftence
Fport Fat Fleaders, public servants, and elected representatives.