Mothers' Union awarded Comic Relief grant
The Mothers’ Union in conjunction with Five Talents and World Concern has been awarded a Comic Relief grant towards a literacy and financial education programme in Sudan over the next 5 years; 2010 – 2015.The programme builds on the successes of the Five Talents savings group model developed in Wau and combines this with the Mothers’ Union literacy training which has been conducted in Juba, Renk and Khartoum. Five Talents’ role is to provide trainers and develop the financial and business training curriculum. We will also be assisting with mentoring, monitoring and reporting.
People in Wau will receive the Mothers’ Union literacy training program and the savings group training while those in Juba, Renk and Khartoum, who have already received the literacy training, will receive savings group training. Eventually, two additional dioceses (districts) will be added to the programme and people in those dioceses will receive both literacy and savings group training. The programme will result in roughly 1,000 communities forming savings and credit groups and 30,000 people (70% of whom will be women) given basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Five Talents looks forward to keeping you informed of the progress of the consortium over the coming months. The Comic Relief funding does not cover 100% of the programme costs. So, if you are able to make a donation towards the success of this new programme please click here.