LITERACY

(See also Aliteracy; Illiteracy; Reading)

benefits: w03 3/15 10-11, 13-14

health: g95 12/8 28

health of children: g96 1/22 28

chart for rich and poor lands: g05 11/8 5

deficient skills:

32 lands (2001): g03 1/22 29

Canada and U.S.: g94 4/8 30

Germany: g96 5/8 28

Japan: g03 5/8 29

link with unemployment: g97 4/22 28

early Christians: w08 9/1 12-15

experiences:

efforts to learn at 16 result in privileges: g94 2/22 8-9

ill-natured wife: w02 8/15 9

learns in six weeks: jv 480

older people learn: yb97 183

youth with mental disability: w08 2/15 18

Israel (ancient): ed 8; g94 2/22 7

teaching literacy:

adult students: g94 2/22 5-7

Witness programs: foa article 2; w21.06 32; ed 11; g 8/15 10-11; yb13 22; km 10/13 4; km 10/11 4; g01 7/22 6-8; g00 12/22 8-9; g94 2/22 8-9; jv 480; w92 11/1 16; w90 7/1 30; w88 7/1 30

Africa: jv 480

Benin: yb97 80-81

booklet Learn to Read and Write: w88 7/1 30

Brazil: foa article 2; g01 7/22 6-8; g00 12/22 9; yb97 182-184; w92 11/1 16

Burundi: foa article 2; g01 7/22 8; g00 12/22 8

Ghana: yb13 22

Haiti: yb94 164-165

Honduras: jv 362

Mexico: foa articles 2, 5; ed 11; g 8/15 10-11; w01 1/1 25; g00 12/22 9; yb95 213; jv 466-467

Mozambique: yb13 22; yb03 27; w02 11/15 32; g01 7/22 8; g00 12/22 8-9; yb99 45-46

Nigeria: ed 11; g94 2/22 8-9; w90 7/1 30

Papua New Guinea: yb11 136-137

Peru: foa article 2

Sierra Leone: yb14 119, 121

Solomon Islands: yb13 22; w02 8/15 8-9

South Africa: yb07 98

Suriname: yb90 233

Zambia: yb13 22-23

women: g98 4/8 10