FANB

The Fédération d’alphabétisation du Nouveau-Brunswick (FANB) is a nonprofit organization established in June, 1989. Its mandate consists of promoting literacy in French in New Brunswick, increasing public awareness, and ensuring a dialogue between the literacy practitioners in the province. The Federation consists of seventeen literacy councils, each representing literacy in French in their respective region.

Through projects and public awareness activities, FANB hopes to contribute to the reduction of the illiteracy rate, which is still very high in francophone New Brunswick. In concrete terms, FANB informs Acadians and francophones on illiteracy, coordinates projects, publishes information documents, puts to the disposal of practitioners a resource center of literacy documents, and acts as a spokesperson to government authorities. Moreover, FANB contributes to making the public and the decision-makers aware of the stakes in literacy in French in New Brunswick.

Fédération d’alphabétisation Nouveau-Brunswick
147B Court Street
Grand Falls (New Brunswick) E3Z 2R1
www.nald.ca/fed.htm
fanb@nbnet.nb.ca