The Total Literacy Project of Ernakulam District, India, sought to improve the skills of nearly 190,000 low-literate people through a mass campaign with 20,000 trained volunteers and thousands of local literacy centers. Its success was due to cooperation of government, nongovernment, and local agencies. (SK)

Based upon the success of three smaller radio study campaigns, a program for a preventive health campaign was planned to directly improve the lives of Tanzania's rural inhabitants. Elements in the campaign included: a national coordianating committee, radio programs, printed materials, trained study group leaders, leader's manuals, and…

"Lead Kindly Light" was an extensive campaign for the total eradication of illiteracy within 1 year in the Ernakulam District of India. A major sponsor was Kerala Sastra Sahithya Parishad (KSSP), the Science and Education Center of Kerala; responsibility for the project was later handed over to the National Literacy Mission (NLM). The…

The Third World countries of Botswana and Tanzania have used Radio Learning Group (RLG) campaigns effectively to get a limited amount of important information to a very large group of people at the same time. During campaigns voluntary participants organized in groups of 5-20 meet twice a week for about 5 weeks to listen to radio broadcasts about…