Our Community-Based Language Development initiative (CBLD) works with Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) in their language communities to help ensure their language serves the community's shifting cultural, social, political, and economic needs.
Ghana LDP
(2018 - present)
LDP seeks to improve upon the educational development in the area of Dagbon (northern Ghana) through addressing the illiteracy rate and the poor quality of basic education with a special focus on literacy in the mother tongue of primary school children.
Peru Vernacular Literature & Reading Clubs
(2019 - present)
Participants in the Peruvian project funded by 2019’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!
IBT Torwali
(2019 - present)
The project with IBT in Pakistan funded by 2019’s CBLD donations created innovative, digitally shareable comics; sponsored literature festivals for children in cooperation with government schools; and collected, documented, and published Torwali poetry & folklore.
Myanmar LSDO
(2019 - present)
The project with LSDO in Myanmar organized a well-planned series of four workshops that have produced new teaching materials and locally authored books using Bloom software in three different languages of Myanmar. They have also introduced trainees from these three language communities to effective new teaching practices.
Indigenous Peruvian Teacher Scholarships
(2015 - present)
In 2015 SIL LEAD launched a pilot project to raise funds for scholarships for indigenous teachers in the Peruvian Amazon who lacked the resources to become fully certified. With the approximately $40,000 SIL LEAD raised from individuals and the Hull Foundation, 21 scholarships have been awarded.