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Literacy and Financial Education
One of the most cost-effective literacy programmes in the world. We train community volunteers as literacy facilitators, who are then equipped to run literacy circles in their own community.
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Positive parenting in Guyana
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Homework Centres in Trinidad and Tobago
Homework centres run by Mothers' Union volunteer teachers are proving invaluable in Trinidad and Tobago