FJWO is an NGO which is dedicated to issues for the betterment
of the lives of women. It doesn't limit its activities just to
women but in case of this particular project,it is working with
indigenous peasent women in Pakistan. FJWO is a non-governmental
organization whose main focus is primary education and literacy of
Pakistan's women especially in the regions of Rawalpindi and
Islamabad.It conducts educational programs geared towards
both elementary age children and female adults.The women's
literacy programs are designed to be bilingual and
intercultural. The program goals are to develop
communicative competence through teaching reading
and writing in the mother tongue, and to achieve
high levels of competence, both oral and written,
in both understanding and producing Urdu.
In the mother literacy programs, the women are
taught to read and write first in Urdu,
and then English is gradually introduced as
a second language. In this way, a maintenance
bilingual education program is effectively introduced,
in which the use of one language does not eliminate the
use of the other.
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