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Mission: The mission of sil lead is to serve minority language communities and support the purposes and ends of sil international, primarily through a focus on language and its role in education and development in minority language communities.
Programs: Sil lead participated in a language development project in uganda funded by usaid, as a subcontractor to rti international. Sil lead's primary role in fy 2013 was to work with the selected minority language communities to develop mother tongue materials for teaching reading for grades 1-3.
sil lead participated in a language development project in ethiopia funded by usaid, as a subcontractor to rti international. Sil lead's primary role in fy 2013 was to facilitate the development of mother tongue materials for three local language groups for grades 1 - 8 in the southern nations, nationalities, people's region (snnpr) of ethiopia.
other small programs including developing educational materials and teacher training; evaluating educational materials; and grants to language development organizations.