In 100 villages, the Laubach Literacy Educational Trust serves 2,900 adult learners in a 110-kilometer area along India's southwest coast. An added 1,000 learners participate in a vocational skills training center in the town of Karthicappally. This organization is one of Laubach's most long-standing international programs. Each One Teach Five is a grassroots literacy and development campaign in Bihar, one of India's poorest states. Each volunteer then teaches five other individuals.
Instruction focuses on skills, information and insights to meet basic needs.
This innovative program enables women to gain information, skills and confidence to improve their standard of living and heighten their self-esteem. Women comprise the majority of participants in this program, which operates in more than four communities. The project operates learning centers for women near Surabaya's industrial centers. Laos - Savannakhet Laubach assistance helps the Laos Department of Literacy coordinate learning and community improvement initiatives among 2,900 rural people in the western part of the country. Participants apply their new skills to poultry and pig-raising cooperatives, bamboo craft production and improvement of community sanitation and infrastructures.