A. In February 2006 CRESP Senegal, in cooperation with Fulbright scholar Jill Salmon, launched an adult literacy course for 50 young women working as maids in Yoff, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal in order to combat illiteracy and provide career advancement. The goal of the program is to provide young women with a basic education, professional training, and education about their health and human rights.

B. Since the project began, we have enrolled 150 domestic workers in evening literacy courses. We have grown so much that we have had to split the students into groups – beginners and advanced. We have also introduced a new method of language instruction called TPR Storytelling through our relationship with Blaine Ray (http://www.tprstories.com/).

And now we aim to use new technologies to empower the girls in terms of health, information, cooking, literacy, mobility and agains