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Over 770 million people in the world lack basic literacy, a majority are women. Research shows that girls and women in many parts of the world encounter different types of discriminatory structures early and in different domains, within their own families, in the surrounding society and in education. This discrimination is shown by the fact that girls are still least likely to go to school and that girls are overrepresented when it comes to dropouts in the early school years, often linked to unwanted pregnancies, marriage, traditions and poverty. The difficulties that exist in reducing inequality for women in relation to access to education mean that this education needs to be rethought and changed so that more women can take part in it (Unesco 2016).
There are thus many factors that mean that these girls and women never get the chance, traditional gender roles and structures that limit girls' and women's life choices to take care of home and family but which also force them to work hard for the family's livelihood which limits the possibility of taking part in education in the traditional way, where attendance is required and where the school day is long, both in hours and years.
To have the opportunity to develop a basic literacy is, according to UNESCO, a lever into society, to be able to get a job, to gain power over your own life and participate in the society in which you live. When women have the opportunity to learn to read and write, it has also been seen that the health of women and their children increases, and that child mortality decreases. There is also a link between women's literacy and increased participation in schools for their children, as well as reduced poverty in women's families and households (Unesco 2016).
Our starting point
We see it as our task to offer our participants an education characterized by a clear resource perspective where all the individual's languages, previous experiences and culture should be the starting point for learning.
Therefore, we continuously strive to be able to offer all our participants an education that takes advantage of their resources and gives them the opportunity to develop a basic literacy that is functional and digital and that can be a first step in their lifelong learning.
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