Literacy in the Articles of Incorporation

This statement from the SIL Articles of Incorporation (literacy-related text marked for emphasis) affirms that literacy has always been a part of the SIL conceptualization of its task:

ARTICLE III

The purposes for which the Corporation is organized are: To carry out and to encourage and train others to carry out the following activities: to train linguists; to sponsor such linguists in their study of those languages which are less known and are hitherto unwritten; to compare the languages studied; to make available the data gathered through publication or other suitable means; to publish helps for persons engaged in such linguistic research; to prepare literature, both by original composition and by translations into the languages studied; to promote literacy among the peoples whose languages are studied; to train such people to promote literacy, and to prepare literature in their own languages. (1936)

• Fact module: Literacy in the Articles of Incorporation
• In overview module: SIL legislative statements on literacy, by Stephen L. Walter
• In overview module: Literacy in SIL, by Stephen L. Walter
• In overview module: The big picture in literacy, by Stephen L. Walter
• In modular book: Prepare for a literacy program, by Stephen L. Walter, Mary Morgan, and Leah B. Walter
• In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 1 October 1999

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