Adult and Family Literacy 2026 - 2027

Family Literacy Initiative/ Adult Literacy Program Report to

GlobalGiving Covering the Period

December 2025 – February 2026

Family Literacy Initiative (FLI), a homebased early childhood education program implemented by WE-CARE Foundation and her partners Friends of Liberia and HIPPY International, successfully completed its tenth (10th) year of activities in December across two counties working in five low-income communities in Liberia (Duazon in Margibi County, Caldwell, Westpoint, Neezoe and Nyemah town in Montserrado County).

Year 10 of FLI closed with 218 families (21 males, 197 females) and 219 children (111 males, females 108). These were direct beneficiaries of the program. More than 61 children within the participating householdsbenefitted indirectly from the program. The Adult Literacy Program ended the year with 84 learners, 35 of these learners were FLI parents and 61 of the learners benefitted from the women empowerment micro loan initiative. At the closing program parents and children demonstrated literacy, numeracy and other school readiness skills. ALP participants demonstrated reading, writing and numeracy skills showing their improved literacy skills and confidence. An adult learner served as the master of ceremony during the program. The audience at these ceremonies, including local government partners, school authorities, religious leaders and community leaders were impressed by the growth they saw in the participants and emphasized the need for the expansion of the FLI program to other communities. Parents expressed their thank to the partners and donors for their contributions in helping to make their lives better. Each child received a gift donated by a generous donor.

Beginning Year Eleven

Year eleven of FLI began with stakeholder engagement meetings held in all five communities with a total of 115 persons in attendance. The stakeholders appreciated the engagement and sharing of the program results. The education officers applauded WE-CARE and her partners for the many lives that they have changed through literacy and school readiness skills over the years.

In 2026, FLI will be working with 232 families with 232 children ages 3 to 5 years in the same five communities, but in new neighborhoods. There are 125 adults that will be receiving adult literacy lessons. Also, the children that graduated from the program in 2024 will be tracked in formal schools to see how well they are performing in school.

The Bracken School Readiness Assessment and Oral Literacy Assessment were conducted for 111first year children and 78 ALP level one learners respectively. To build the capacity for improving performance in home visits and teaching ALP classes, a five-day staff refresher training workshop was conducted. Staff knowledge of HIPPY model’s goals aligned with Liberia’s Early Childhood Education, key concepts and skills of the FLI contextualized curriculum and ALP curriculum, providing feedback on teaching strategies and writing better descriptive reports were enhanced.

Challenge

Fourteen families dropped from the program during 2025 implementation due to relocation from the communities and natural disasters such as flooding of homes, homes burned by fire, etc. We are hoping that year eleven will not experience these tragedies.

Our pleasant surprise for this quarter is that the community leaders of the various communities actually participated in the recruitment of new families into the program. They walked with the team from house to house building momentum and explaining the benefits of the program to family heads.

Testimonial: During the stakeholders meeting a woman leader expressed her appreciation for the FLI program. She said, her mother who could not read and write attended the adult literacy classes. After two years of participating, her mother is reading and writing and is able to send and respond to text messages on the phone. She also said, she herself has received help from the ALP classes and her five-year old daughter is benefitting from the program through home visits. With tears in her eyes, she said “This program has made me to be more engaging with the men as the woman leader in my community.”

WE-CARE Foundation, her partners and stakeholders would like to emphasize the importance of the continuation of the Family Literacy Program and what it means for the underserved families in low-income socioeconomic communities. Your donations are crucial and we hope for an increase in donations to expand to new communities.