Through a variety of media and documentation methodologies - audio and video - this initiative communicates the experiences of men and women who have taught literacy to others, worked to implement literacy programmes, or struggled to achieve literacy themselves.

Visitors to the Literacy Project website, which is a work in progress, may watch a video online about the 1961 literacy campaign in Cuba which includes, for example, interviews with women who, in 1961, heeded the call to leave their urban high schools to teach literacy in rural areas of the country. Also, one may read about literacy and illiteracy in the United States today, and the challenges and strategies associated with treating low-literacy patients in the health care system. In addition, organisers are in the process of exploring the history of literacy campaigns and literacy programmes throughout the Americas, with a special focus on the intersection of race, class, and gender as it relates to literacy.

Literacy.