Where We Work

Because of its capacity to reach large numbers of women at relatively low cost, its orientation to community-based development, and its emphasis on fostering the self-reliance and empowerment of women through literacy, income generation and community activism, WORTH has important innovations to offer a world in which efforts to reduce illiteracy and alleviate poverty have often been disappointing.

Due to the tremendous need for sustainable, empowering, poverty alleviation programs that address the rising epidemic of HIV/AIDS in many sub-Saharan African nations, WORTH has focused initial efforts on adapting the program for use in several African cultural contexts. Materials have been developed in Kiswahili dialects for Kenya, DRC and Tanzania, as well as in English for returning Liberian refugees in Guinea. WORTH builds on existing local resources and networks to offer opportunity for women to lift themselves and their families out of illiteracy and poverty and into a productive, healthy future.