Enlightening the Hearts

Campaign Objectives: The Enlightening the Hearts Literacy campaign has the following objectives: To promote literacy and moral education among junior youth in rural deprived areas of the country. To effect a transformation in the spiritual and material progress of the individual and community.   To assist children and adults access the Holy Word of God through learning to read and write, particularly in their mother tongue.

Promoting Material and Spiritual Development The Enlightening the Hearts Literacy Campaign is a national campaign assisting children and junior youth increase literacy skills in order to improve their material and spiritual development.  Working in three of the most deprived and educationally disadvantaged regions of the country, the campaign assists district education offices and community based organisations implement literacy programmes appropriate to their various contexts.

The Approach The Enlightening the Hearts Literacy Campaign believes that literacy and moral education are essential to the progress and development of society and is the basis for development. The literacy materials produced by the project are based on the Holy Writings from three major religions: Christianity, Islam, and the Bahá’í Faith.  Experience over the last five years in three language groups—Twi, Ewe, and Dagbani—has proven that this approach speeds the learner's ability to acquire basic literacy skills.   Access to Holy Writings can also stimulate individual and collective transformation. It also ensures human capacity development such that their full potential is released.

"Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man’s life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone. The knowledge of such sciences, however, should be acquired as can profit the peoples of the earth, and not those which begin with words and end with words."