Improving the well being of children by valuing mother as a child’s first teacher.
Based on the belief of mother as child’s first teacher, Literature for Life’s programs assist lone parent young mothers ages 15 to 29 from the city’s poorest neighbourhoods to increase their literacy and social skills to develop the capacity necessary to be employed, self sufficient and effective parents.
Female literacy and education are most powerful and cost effective tools to support the well being of children and to combat child poverty. When a parent values, models and exposes her children to books and education at an early age, she significantly increases her child’s school readiness, and radically decreases her child’s chances of dropping out of school, engaging in delinquency, substance abuse, or become a teen parent. She is able to provide social, economic and emotional stability for her child.
Literature for Life knows the key to a child’s success in school is the mother’s love of reading and learning. Her ability to build a culture of literacy, learning and economic prosperity for her children presents the first opportunity to hope for a better life, which enables her to take action and finally, to escape the generational cycle of child poverty.
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Women with Words Reading Circles, Yo'Mama Magazine
