Sentence examples for teach illiterate from inspiring English sources

It is hard to teach illiterate Indian women basic hygiene.

In Madhaopur, DfiD is also supervising and assisting with immunisation of babies and has helped with a project to teach illiterate women.

Guevara set up factories to make grenades, built ovens to bake bread, taught new recruits about tactics, and organized schools to teach illiterate campesinos to read and write.

He was an illiterate man yet Mohamed strongly valued education and asked his opponents in Mecca to teach illiterate Muslims to read and write as a truce of peace.

It is interesting how well all of this resonates with the ideas of the educator Paolo Freire, who inspired a generation with his "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" to teach illiterate adults in the Brazilian favelas.

Within six months of incarceration, the prison teaches illiterate inmates to read and write.

His state government increased school enrolment, taught illiterate adults to read, raised the state university to national stature and brought Louisiana out of the horse-and-buggy era by building lots of new roads and bridges.

He called the eight years between the murder in 1994 and his conviction on Wednesday a "dark, unproductive, diminished" time, and appealed for a future of teaching illiterate prison inmates to read and appreciate books.

Volunteers teaching illiterate adults to read want to better their students' lives.

She's taught illiterate women to read in prison classes, she's stitched a portion of the AIDS quilt, made bedding for the homeless, recorded books on tape for the blind.

Being anti-Western is not going to feed the hungry, teach the illiterate or create jobs.