‘Freedom from Illiteracy: Each One Teach Ten’ is a national-level, year-long campaign launched by TWEET in August 2022. The campaign aims at providing illiterate adult women across the country with functional literacy.
The major mission of the campaign is to engage educated women all over the country to volunteer for the initiative, educating at least 10 illiterate adult women and creating a remarkable impact on their lives.
It also intends at addressing major issues among the women such as unemployment, poverty, social backwardness and unrest, discrimination, suppression, and many more through the effective execution of the campaign.
The program will be implemented through tie-ups with different organizations including civil society, NGOs, governmental organizations, clubs, local leaders, and educational institutions. Using existing social work and educational schemes and through the education departments of different universities, the program will find volunteers and also tap into the capacity of NGOs at the local level. Additionally, changemakers in society will be taken on board as volunteers.
India’s National Literacy Mission defines literacy as acquiring the skills of reading, writing, and arithmetic and the ability to apply them to one’s day-today life. According to National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) 2019-21, the literacy rate amongst adult women (15-49 years) in the country stands at 71.5% while the literacy rate of adult men is 87.4%.