Impact of Functional Adult Literacy On Rural Households of Abim Sub-County Abim District

Abstract The research investigated the impact of functional adult literacy on rural households of Abim County in Abim District, the research was guided by three objectives that included; to establish the impact of functional adult literacy on rural households, to establish the effects of functional adult literacy and finaly to assess the attitudes of people towards functional adult literacy in Abim County. The study was guided by a descriptive study design. The literature found that; despite the fact that FAL programs are in progress in some parts of the country, not all households attend to it. Evidence show how households face literacy challenges cited that have to some extent hindered the successful move to the realization of its objectives like inadequate skilled adult trainers, high illiteracy rate among the learners, and inadequate learning facilities. The findings in table 5 showed that as a matter of fact, there is a number of income generating activities carried out by the FAL learners in the sub county, the researcher noticed that the income generating activity is agriculture and tree planting becomes the most neglected type of income generating activity. The researcher learnt that; despite the impact of FAL the economic status and the change in the social cultural life of the people of Abim sub county, in table 6; the greatest percentage still have negative attitude towards FAL e.g. some of them it’s an a shaming program, attending classes is time wasting among others, even when they can see learners building shops, buying cows, goats and becoming food suppliers of the sub county and the district at large. Their attitude has failed to change. This may be because of lack of exposure of the community to life beyond their cultures and the high illiteracy rate in the community members. To change their attitude so that they can also benefit from the program needs the government to devise other strategies and strict laws towards FAL for the realization of its objectives of eradicating poverty among rural households through FAL. The purpose of the study was therefore to find the effect of FAL on the economic status of rural households in Abim Sub County.