However, after participating in literacy classes at a Community Learning Center, supported by the National Federation of UNESCO Association of Japan, her life changed dramatically.
The Workshop was organised by the Indira Gandhi National Open University in collaboration with the Indian Adult Education Association, the International Institute of Adult and Lifelong Education and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning.
Learning how the States work was something that Roy Bisson from the Workers Educational Association (WEA) also said was important and is something the WEA teach on a course designed to brief potential politicians "on what happens in the States and how they run their finances".
Minister for Learning and Technology, Michael Wills, announced the initiative on Monday at the Local Government Association's Tomorrow's Socially Excluded conference.