Education

• Develop meaningful, non-sexist reading material.

• Make the most of learners' experiences and opinions about the resource material provided and about what helps them learn best (useful learning strategies).

• Support the professional development of the literacy workers, particularly in their work with women who have little basic knowledge /of reading, writing, and mathematics.

Working Conditions

• Study the relation between women literacy workers and low salaries.

• Make space for the recreational, spiritual, relaxing and healing aspects of our work

FLWN as a Site for Action and Reflection

• Set up pilot projects; make the results known in the FLWN network and elsewhere; take them into consideration in our future practices.

• Acknowledge the reality of violence, poverty or the protection of youth and cultural differences, rather than the usual middle-class analyses of the fear of success, the fear of women, the challenge to poverty, which are currently addressed through workforce-oriented programs for women.

• Define and agree upon the objectives of our organization.

Strengthening the Network

• Grant equal status to all members of the network.

• Work towards an understanding of feminism that suits our needs and brings us together.

• Reach women in outlying regions, such as in Manitoba: The Pass Band, Thompson, Nelson House, Cross Lake, Norway House, Grand Rapids, etc

• Act as a link between all women literacy workers in Canada so that we become a support network and a force we can count on in terms of literacy policy, working conditions, innovation in the field, etc.

• Promote national, regional, and local events; establish links with other women's groups or networks; sponsor such events.

• Become an active network using electronic and printed communications to facilitate the exchange of ideas and information.

• Organize provincial assemblies to allow more people to meet, share ideas and act.