The Citizen’s Foundation Aagahi Program, which is one of the most successful community development, adult literacy programme for women in the country, has been selected as one of the winners of UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy 2017.
This year’s theme was ‘Literacy in a Digital World’ and Aagahi was recognized on the basis of its effectiveness and the successful use of technology and digital tools for monitoring and evaluation of the programme.
Aagahi, now in its 12th year, has reached out to 59,000+ women in Pakistan, making them well versed in Urdu reading, writing and basic numeracy skill. It has made a positive impact on everyday lives of these women, from being able to read bus numbers at a busy bus stop, to calculating the change they are owed at the end of a shopping transaction, to writing a letter to their loved ones and most importantly, supporting their child in education.
The Prize will be awarded at an official ceremony at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris on the International Literacy Day. Chairman of The Citizens Foundation, Mr. Ateed Riaz will be receiving the award on behalf of the organisation.