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Nellie Boko, a member of the Literacy program, acquired the skills to become a housekeeper so she can put her children through school
Reading for Life in Congo
Goal: $7,900 by 2013
About this Mission Project
Women in an isolated village in Western Congo crowd the rough benches of a small dark mud and thatch school room. They eagerly face the teacher who stands before a make-shift blackboard.
Nellie Boko is a 40-ish quiet, hard-working, subsistence farmer, committed to God and to her family. She is a school-dropout and a widow with 4 young children to put through school by herself.
Since its creation in 1998, the Literacy for Family Well-Being program has taught more than 12,000 students. By providing inexpensive booklets, the program provides practical information on nutrition and agriculture.
$100 provides 400 new primers to 100 literacy classes. $250 covers the full printing costs for 1,000 booklets.
Reading gives Nellie and other women access to information that they can use to improve the lives of their families.
Mission Project Specifics
This project seeks to raise $7,900 to publish and distribute 1,000 copies of thirty different 12 page booklets over the next 3 years. We expect that some 15,000 families will benefit from improved literacy skills.
This project will be managed by Miriam Noyes, IM missionary and technical advisor for the Congolese Baptist organization, Literacy for Family Well-Being.
We anticipate that this project will improve the life skills of participants, as well as their health, welfare and the educational success of their families. Literacy skills will create economic opportunities for them and help to combat poverty. We expect that this change in their lives will reinforce their joy and trust in God.
Connect to this Mission Project
• Pray with Miriam Noyes and her partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that God would enable women like Nellie to know His abundance for their lives through this project.
• Share this information with others in your community and in your church family.
Goal: $7,900 by 2013
About this Mission Project
Women in an isolated village in Western Congo crowd the rough benches of a small dark mud and thatch school room. They eagerly face the teacher who stands before a make-shift blackboard.
Nellie Boko is a 40-ish quiet, hard-working, subsistence farmer, committed to God and to her family. She is a school-dropout and a widow with 4 young children to put through school by herself.
Since its creation in 1998, the Literacy for Family Well-Being program has taught more than 12,000 students. By providing inexpensive booklets, the program provides practical information on nutrition and agriculture.
$100 provides 400 new primers to 100 literacy classes. $250 covers the full printing costs for 1,000 booklets.
Reading gives Nellie and other women access to information that they can use to improve the lives of their families.
Mission Project Specifics
This project seeks to raise $7,900 to publish and distribute 1,000 copies of thirty different 12 page booklets over the next 3 years. We expect that some 15,000 families will benefit from improved literacy skills.
This project will be managed by Miriam Noyes, IM missionary and technical advisor for the Congolese Baptist organization, Literacy for Family Well-Being.
We anticipate that this project will improve the life skills of participants, as well as their health, welfare and the educational success of their families. Literacy skills will create economic opportunities for them and help to combat poverty. We expect that this change in their lives will reinforce their joy and trust in God.
Connect to this Mission Project
• Pray with Miriam Noyes and her partners in the Democratic Republic of Congo, that God would enable women like Nellie to know His abundance for their lives through this project.
• Share this information with others in your community and in your church family.