P.A.L.S. is a charitable organization that helps adults improve their literacy skills for better employment or further educational opportunities through one to one tutoring and small group work

Related SDG(s): No poverty, Quality education, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities

Project: P.A.L.S works with individuals with extremely low literacy skills. Two challenges that arise from this are that 1) individuals with low literacy skills often have difficulty with identifying where literacy impacts their lives. They have often “made do” for so long that they are unaware of some of the challenges they face such as maintaining prescription medications correctly, accessing job information, or understanding a letter from their child’s school. 2) Lack of study skills or knowledge of how to develop them. As you know, learning is hard work and there are specific skills that students learn and develop to support their lifelong learning. With low literacy levels this can be very challenging to do.

These two challenges may be addressed individually as two projects or by a single team as one project. Example potential projects could be a visual systems map showing the areas that literacy impacts and/or a visual study skills development resource that helps adults develop effective study skills to support them on improving their literacy skills.