Matching Challenge
Adult Literacy Matching Challenge
From March 1 through April 31, 2026, your gifts to Adult Literacy Classes will be doubled, up to $300,000!
Change Someone’s Life Forever!
President & CEO Todd VanEk has a special message about our newest matching challenge to share. Watch to get the details.
Double Your Impact
It normally costs $40 to provide a 5th grade-level education to one of India’s 287 million adults. But through our Adult Literacy Matching Challenge, every $40 you give will share the joy of literacy—and the Good News of Jesus—with TWO of India’s adults!
We’re so excited to partner with you to double the impact of Adult Literacy Classes. Together, we can bring freedom through one year of lessons on reading, counting, basic hygiene, and nutrition so that India’s adults can experience the Kingdom, “on Earth as it is in Heaven”!
Why Adult Literacy?
According to UNESCO, an estimated 287 million adults in India have never had the chance to be educated. That’s 287 million adults who are unable to count their money accurately at the market, read bus signs when they need to use public transportation, or nurse their children back to health when they fall ill.
And these small, daily problems can multiply into much more dangerous realities: Illiterate adults and their children are more likely to be trafficked, die from preventable diseases, and get caught in unpayable debt.
Illiterate adults are looking for a better way of life. Will you offer it to them?
What is an Adult Literacy Class?
Local believers across India want to see their neighborhoods grow spiritually, mentally, and physically.
Through Adult Literacy Classes, we get to come alongside them so they can see that happen.
Adult Literacy Classes take place daily after work for an entire year. Students graduate with a 5th grade-level education—that includes fluent reading, writing, and basic math, but it includes so much more as well. Students learn about their rights as citizens, the importance of sending their children to school, and about hygienic food-handling—because no one can adequately focus on learning when their family is sick.
And while Adult Literacy students are learning to read and write, their teacher is ministering to them and praying over each of them by name. This is so effective that 2/3 of Adult Literacy Classes transition into churches!
Adult Literacy Matching Challenge 2026
From March 1 through April 31, 2026, your gifts to Adult Literacy Classes will be doubled, up to $300,000!
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