Reach out to Asia

‘Reach out to Asia’, a project run by the Qatar foundation, contacted us in the spring of 2011 regarding support for a literacy programme they hoped to run with migrant workers in Doha. There are a number of new American universities established in Doha with a broad range of international students. But the university is staffed by migrant workers who come to work in service roles (security, maintenance, catering) and who have very limited English or literacy. This has a huge impact on their ability to move freely about the city, to manage their income and send funds home to their families and to access adequate health care and legal advice. The universities worked with the Qatar foundation to put in place a literacy programme in English to be run by students who would be trained as literacy teachers. Juliet Millican from Cupp was contracted to provide input into the programme’s design and to deliver a training course in literacy teaching for the students. She spent four days in Doha in October and will return again in February 2012.

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