Written by: Dominique Chauvet-Staco At the core of Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program (CEP) is the Community Management Committee (CMC)—a democratically elected group of 19 members, predominantly women, who take the reins of leadership to guide and sustain the...
Cheikh Anta Diop explains the Meaning of Tostan … Thoughts of development began to occupy a lot of her thinking and she was always eager to share them with Cheikh Anta. He was not surprised by what she was observing in the field – how a narrow view of education and...
In the heart of The Gambia, Muhamadou B. Drammeh, a teacher, had a transformative idea: ‘What if children in his country who have never been to school could received a non-formal education in their native language? This idea came to him after an encounter with...
