By Yvonne Capehart | Project Leader, Co-Director WE-CARE Foundation
The Family Literacy Initiative (FLI) program is making key progress as it completes the eighth year of bringing literacy and school reading skills to parents and their preschool children. This program is increasing the opportunity for 3 to 5 years old children in disadvantage communities in Liberia to have quality early childhood education with their parents as their first teachers. The partnership of WE-CARE Foundation, Friends of Liberia and HIPPY International is effective and was essential to the success of FLI.
HIPPY - Home Visiting Year Eight Report
Cmty Yr 1 students Yr 2 students Yr 3 students Yearend
Total
Caldwell 27 22 7 56
Duazon 25 18 13 56
West Point 26 16 12 54
Neezoe 17 17 20 54
Nyemah Town 14 25 0 39
Total 109 98 52 259
Total families that started year eight in January 2023 ….. 274
Total families that dropped ……………. 15
Total families that ended year eight…….259
Total children that will graduate from Year 3 … 53 children
Adult Literacy Program (ALP):
Community Year 1 students Year 2 students Yearend Total
Caldwell 11 8 19
Duazon 18 8 26
Neezoe 18 4 22
Nyemah Town 27 24 51
Total 74 44 118
The external evaluator is now conducting the endline assessment for both Bracken school readiness for the children and the Out of school Learning Assessment (OLA) for the adult learners.
The closing and graduation program will take place the last week in November in the five communities.
Plans for Year Nine of the HIPPY Home Visiting Program have been seriously affected by the decision received from Comic Relief USA that funding for 2024 would be cut in half. After serious discussion, it has been decided that to continue our literacy work in these communities it will be necessary to discontinue all Year 1 recruitment and learning in the five communities. This decision is not made easily. It will require laying off home visiting staff and disappointing parents and communities where we have established strong relationships. WE-CARE will have funding to continue programming for children in Year 2 and Year 3 in all five communities. WE-CARE will continue to look for funding to fully fund the HIPPY Home Visiting Program in the five communities for children in year 1, 2 and 3.
Funding received through GlobalGiving will help with the continuation of programming in Year Nine as we move into 2024.
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