This project’s goal is to collaborate with local literacy agencies and churches to promote reading and writing, specifically with a focus on languages in Malaita Province, known for its linguistic diversity, including Baeggu, Kwaio, and Fataleka.

By 2026, the project aims to empower 1,500 individuals to attain literacy in their native languages. Through 10 annual literacy training events, literacy teachers will be equipped with skills to teach literacy to others, and to pass on the training they receive.

Through developing literacy, this project aims to enable involvement in community activities, address youth unemployment and other social issues such as domestic violence and sexual exploitation of women (linked with illiteracy). An additional aim of the project is to deepen the connection between participants and the Scriptures, encouraging daily Bible reading and study. This will enable them to actively engage in church.

In 2024, the plan is to enrol 480 students with 10 teachers, aiming for 300 graduates. 1,500 literacy primers, supplementary reading materials, and 500 copies of Scripture will be distributed.

Around 1,000 people will be impacted directly by this project, learning literacy skills, and being equipped to read and engage with the Bible, actively participate in church and community life, and better their lives and livelihoods.

In addition to this, school children will also benefit as the community are able to supply trained literacy teachers from the course, to conduct after school literacy classes. Children will also benefit as their parents learn to read, as will church communities by the increased participation of their newly literate members.