ASCS is conducting literacy programmes for women in the area with the following objectives:

• To improve practical literacy level among women
• To enhance self confidence, self esteem and empowerment of women and their families
• To increase awareness and interest in education among adults and children
• To make the people aware of functional literacy
• To improve quality of literacy programmes with better qualified teachers
• To develop in the people love for books and interest in reading for fun
• To make parents and children spend quality time together on reading.

To achieve the desired literacy, materials are prepared and provided at the literacy centres so that the group could finish the class on time proposed. Each literacy teachers attends his/her centre regularly for six days in a week from 10:00 in the morning to 4:00 in the evening.

At present 20 Adult literacy centres are effectively running in which 323 women are registered. These women regularly attend the centre and they learn lessons on how to read, write, and on mathematical abilities.

The impact of the activities has now become visible. The neo literates are becoming the channels of social change and imparting the knowledge to other illiterates in the community. Women participate regularly in the literacy programmes and use literacy skills in their daily lives, especially with their own children. The learning materials are being used in each centre. This has created new awareness among the women who attend the centre. Monthly assessments and annual literacy tests are done to assess the impact of the programme. Most of the women have developed reading and writing habits in them.