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Our Projects in India

At World Literacy Canada, we focus our programming in the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh – the most populous and impoverished in the country. With a population of 200 million, Uttar Pradesh would rank as the world’s 5^th largest country if it were independent.

With our nine local partners, we work in 555 urban slums and villages of Uttar Pradesh and Nepal. Our work reaches over 250 000 people directly, and over 555 000 indirectly, mainly women and children.

Despite a dominant narrative of prosperity and upward mobility, the eight poorest states of India contain more people living in absolute poverty than in Africa’s 26 poorest countries combined. With income disparities widening and intensifying gender inequality, it is important to continue providing hope and opportunity to the 645 million citizens who have no access to India’s newfound wealth.