In February 2019, J&A was awarded the Reading for All Malawi (REFAM) Project. USAID is embarking on this inclusive education activity that will build on USAID Malawi’s extensive work to date in teaching children to read by expanding support to Malawi’s National Reading Program. The objective is to address the needs of children with disabilities currently enrolled in Resource Centers across the country in order to help them better acquire reading skills. In particular, the activity will focus on young children, and especially girls, in Standards 1-4 with visual, hearing or intellectual disabilities by developing protocols for:
- Identifying learners with disabilities and their learning needs
- Connecting them to appropriate teaching and learning resources
- Monitoring and assessing their learning progress
- Increasing parental and community support for their success
