{"id":441,"date":"2025-07-15T18:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/?page_id=441"},"modified":"2025-07-15T18:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T18:17:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/wp\/\">BALID<\/a><\/mark><\/strong> is a UK-based NGO operating as a voluntary organisation under UK law. We are tasked with promoting adult, family and community literacy and numeracy as a basic human right, in the context of international development.<\/p>\n<p><mark class=\"has-inline-color\"><strong>BALID brings togethe<\/strong>r <\/mark>practitioners and academics \u2013 literacy and language experts, students, early career scholars, NGO staff and policy consultants \u2013 in order to explore what this understanding of literacy might mean for social change and community empowerment. For more than a decade we have organised our lively series of <mark class=\"has-inline-color\">Informal Literacy Discussions (ILDs)<\/mark>. We depend financially on our members: please do <a href=\"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/wp\/join\/\">join<\/a> us if you can.<\/p>\n<p>We are a <strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color\">global community <\/mark><\/strong>of people keen to explore the relationship between literacy and international development, particularly among adults.<\/p>\n<p>BALID offers a platform for <strong><mark class=\"has-inline-color\">effective dialogue<\/mark><\/strong> between organisations and individuals who believe that sharing experiences about learning and literacy can enrich the lives of workers and citizens, whether in low-, middle- or high-income countries.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALID is a UK-based NGO operating as a voluntary organisation under UK law. We are tasked with promoting adult, family and community literacy and numeracy as a basic human right, in the context of international development. BALID brings together practitioners and academics \u2013 literacy and language experts, students, early career scholars, NGO staff and policy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-441","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balid.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}