Defeating ignorance with the most powerful force known to man: Women

What do you do in lands where there is no money to build schools for millions of uneducated children? How do you reach into the hearts of destitute communities to inspire lasting change in a way that’s sustainable and cost-effective? How do you counteract primitive extremism where fundamentalist fanatics have enjoyed free reign?

Amarok Society teaches uneducated mothers how to read and write, and then teaches the mothers to be neighbourhood teachers – educating their own and their neighbours’ children every day in their homes, with astonishing result.

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