Thus, recognising that family wellbeing and development directly correlates with the educational standards of women, PEPE initiated the Alternative Community Education Programme (ACEP) in an effort to combatilliteracy using traditional knowledge systems as the principal basis of learning.
The Literacy and Continuing Education and Capacity Building Programme for Ethnic Minorities was designed especially for ethnic minority adult women (18 to 45 years) in an effort to combatilliteracy and thus to contribute towards the achievement of EFA goals as well as to promote community development.