Human Resource Development

This project supports Guatemala’s pre and primary schools and the educational development of children in Huehuetenango. Specifically J&A, the project’s literacy partner, provides technical assistance to PCI to improve the quality and equity of student reading outcomes, focusing on 294 public schools in six municipalities in the Mam and Q’anjob’al linguistic regions in the department of Huehuetenango.

J&A implements interventions that foster teacher attendance, that improve access to literacy materials, including adapting materials to local languages, and by sponsoring reading fairs as well as training teachers and principals.

The overarching objective is to teach Malawian children to read by expanding support to Malawi’s National Reading Program in order to address the needs of children with disabilities currently enrolled in Resource Centers across the country so as to help them better acquire reading skills. In particular, the activity focuses on young children, especially girls, in Standards 1 to 4 with visual, hearing or intellectual disabilities.