Double Your Money with CBLD!

DONATIONS ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED FOR THIS PROJECT.

Thank you to those to those who donated in the past.

Do you love your language? Your community? Your world? Well, do we have an opportunity for you!

Our passion at SIL LEAD is to help local, community-based organizations use their own languages to improve their quality of life. Last year we piloted a new Community-Based Language Development grants program with several organizations, with amazing results!

This year we’ve opened up the process for a new batch of applicants, and from now until Christmas Day, 2019, all donations to the CBLD program (up to a total of $5,000) will be matched by one of our generous board members.

Will you join us in helping these communities realize their dreams?

Will you watch as the value of your gift is first doubled, then multiplied exponentially by a number of fantastic, thoroughly-vetted community organizations and all of the people they work with and serve?

Over the next few days we’ll be highlighting a number of last year’s grantees.

Today, we want to tell you about FAIENAP, in Peru, South America. For many people in rural areas in Peru, access to good educational resources is very limited. But participants in the Peruvian project funded by last year’s CBLD donations made the long and sometimes arduous journey to FAIENAP’s workshops to develop their abilities as literacy facilitators and to create exciting new literacy materials in their own languages!

These wonderful trainees give their lives to promoting literacy among children, teenagers and adults in remote villages and towns across the country. They often struggle with limited resources. The Peru Vernacular Literature & Reading Clubs project gave the participants a big boost!

Each of these trainees takes what they have learned back to their communities. They start reading clubs in their villages to encourage and support new readers. These lessons multiply in the lives of the children, teenagers and adults they teach. And the future of their communities is impacted forever.