4.3 Possible program activities for the second stage

• a women's support group in which both literacy students and workers could discuss how their work in the program has affected their lives and how they see their lives affecting the program
• planning and holding a two-day workshop for all the participants of a program on the role of women workers and students in the past, present and future
• a women-only class or group that meets regularly to work on literacy skills in the context of their lives in their particular community (The curriculum would be developed by the group as a whole.)
• using the development and introduction of a sexual harassment policy as a piece of curriculum that would raise gender issues in a program or organization
• reviewing and selecting some literacy materials that would be of particular interest to women and introducing them to the program or organization
• developing a video in which women literacy students and workers discuss how and why they are involved in literacy work and how they see their experience, as women, affecting the program
• women literacy workers and students producing a collection of writing, drawing, photography, etc., that talks about their lives
• developing and implementing a planning process that will lead to some formal consideration of women's experience within the program and/or organization
• organizing a group to take part in International Women's Day activities, including some participation in the organizing by the women's community to help raise consciousness around literacy and publicity materials