India has by far the largest population of illiterate adults at 287 million, amounting to 37% of the global total, a United Nations report said highlighting the huge disparities existing in education levels of the country’s rich and poor. This bane of widespread illiteracy has created impediments and hurdles in the lives of masses and has further pushed them back into the vicious circle of poverty. Their inability to read, write and calculate often leaves them vulnerable to the clutches of exploitation.

We got familiar with few major issues which prevail within our target communities due to our constant interface with them. The evil of illiteracy is widespread in the Indian society and it has been curtailing their opportunities to come out of poverty and lead productive lives. Badlaav aims at imparting functional literacy to adult illiterates who lies in the productive age group. We are keen to empower masses to independently meet the reading and writing demands which society places on them.

Empower Foundation is working at the grass root level to provide functional literacy is provided through the medium of non formal education techniques.

Communities will get the opportunity to come together to seek learning and this process facilitates the transformation of the society at large.

Badlaav is an effort to make people lettered and to deal with intertwined issues central to the livelihoods of many just people in rural, semi urban and urban landscapes.