Approximately 739 million people are illiterate, especially women, seriously impacting poverty. Jesus entreats, Extend your soul to the illiterate!
Picture being unable to read a medicine label. Unable to fill out a job application. Unable to help your child with homework.
This is daily life for approximately 739 million people around the world.
The majority of them are women.
Illiteracy is more than the absence of letters on a page.
It locks people out of employment.
It silences their voices.
It traps families in poverty for generations.
The North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists did it.
Over the past twenty years, they have partnered with churches around the world to help more than 180,000 people become literate.
One of them is Jose Cruz.
Declared dead at birth, Jose survived but suffered brain damage that made learning difficult. A teacher told him he would never learn to read or write.
But his mother refused to give up.
She found a literacy program at a Seventh-day Adventist church in Panama.
Today, Jose reads, writes, and works with dignity.
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