{"id":29842,"date":"2023-11-02T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T16:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adra.org\/?p=29842"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:31:30","slug":"el-salvador-adra-helps-people-of-all-ages-to-read-and-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/el-salvador-adra-helps-people-of-all-ages-to-read-and-write","title":{"rendered":"El Salvador: ADRA hilft Menschen aller Altersgruppen beim Lesen und Schreiben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADRA\u2019s literacy project in El Salvador aims to change people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI know in some schools wouldn\u2019t allow me to take classes because I have my child with me. I thank God and ADRA that I can learn with my daughter,\u201d explains Mary Collindres, a student at one of more than 120 literacy schools created by ADRA in El Salvador to empower communities in remote and indigenous regions of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of students of all ages and grades, from kindergarten through high school, attend classes to learn and enhance reading, writing, and math skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"El Salvador Literacy Program\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1174648072?h=16faec29a9&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe literacy project in El Salvador not only teaches people how to read and write, but also empowers them to achieve the essential skills to find jobs,\u201d says Alex Figueroa, ADRA Country Director for El Salvador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am finishing 8<sup>th<\/sup> grade, and hope to become a teacher one day,\u201d says student Javier Solorzano.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year, hundreds of students graduate from the ongoing annual education program, which began in 2002.&nbsp; It is supported by donors and the Adventist Church in El Salvador, North America, and Inter-America, as well as other organizations and municipalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are grateful for ADRA&#8217;s collaboration. as a municipality, we couldn\u2019t have done it. ADRA helped us reach communities and provided advice on how to conduct the classes,\u201d says San Juan Nonualco Councilwoman Patricia Quintanilla.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADRA transforms backyards, gardens, churches, and even huts in the middle of the forest into schoolhouses to offer the free program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe furnish them with tables, chairs, and blackboards to turn them into classrooms. Most of the teachers are ADRA volunteers from churches and communities who donate their time every week,\u201d says Alex Figueroa, ADRA Country director for El Salvador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of the students are women, and many are older adults. &nbsp;A 75-year-old student treks 25 kilometers every day to make it to the Panchimalco school near a mountaintop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t have a chance to learn as children, but we can still do it as adults. You keep hope alive when you know you are coming here to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, more than 1200 students are expected to graduate from the ADRA Literacy project in El Salvador.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In El Salvador nehmen Hunderte von Sch\u00fclern aller Alters- und Klassenstufen am Unterricht teil, um Lesen, Schreiben und Rechnen zu lernen und zu verbessern.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[615,594,872,1052,1065,829,1053],"tags":[741,1148,372,1176,426,1020],"class_list":["post-29842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-education","category-el-salvador","category-inter-america","category-reflections","category-voices","category-volunteerism-service","tag-adventist-church","tag-formal-basic-education","tag-giving-tuesday","tag-literacy-numeracy","tag-volunteer","tag-womens-empowerment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29842"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45549,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29842\/revisions\/45549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adra.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}