Below is information on a Guest Discussion with Brenda Bell, which will be 
held on the Women and Literacy Discussion List starting tomorrow. If you 
want to be a part of that discussion, subscribe to that list by going to:
http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Womenliteracy and following the simple 
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I am pleased and honored to announce that from November 17th-December 1st, 
Brenda Bell has graciously agreed to be a guest facilitator on our 
listserv. The focus of her time with us will be to discuss her litercy work 
in Afghanistan.

Here is some general information about her:

Brenda Bell, formerly Associate Director of the Center for Literacy 
Studies, University of Tennessee, and long-time EFF manager, is in 
Afghanistan for several months assisting with the Literacy for Community 
Empowerment Program, a project of Education Development Center in 
partnership with UN Habitat. This is Brenda's third trip to Afghanistan in 
the past ten months.

The LCEP, active in five Afghan provinces, links literacy with governance 
and economic development activities in 200 rural villages. Literacy 
teachers, for women's and men's classes, are from the villages, and often 
have less than a 10th grade education. They are supported by training and 
mentoring provided by facilitators at the district and national level.

Daphne Greenberg
Assistant Professor
Educational Psych. & Special Ed.
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg at gsu.edu