The National Bureau of Statistics Household Survey Report of 1999/2000 implicated Busoga as a region with low literacy levels, indicating Kamuli as the lowest.
This prompted Cultural Research Centre (CRC) to conduct a survey in 2008, whose findings found indeed parts of Busoga in a sorry state. In the analysis of these findings, it was found out that there was a close link between illiteracy and poverty, since information is power; and yet a lot of information is bypassed by those who do not know how to read and write. Illiteracy necessarily hinders access to information, thereby leaving the affected people with limited options for participating in social development processes. It was on that basis that Cultural Research Centre introduced a Functional Adult Literacy Programme (FAL) in order to uplift the reading, writing and numeracy skills of those adult women and men who did not get an opportunity to go to school. The programme was designed to be taught in Lusoga a language these people could easily understand. Besides, these adult learners were trained in hygiene and sanitation, human rights awareness, modern farming methods, current affairs and income generating activities in order to make the acquired skills functional. Therefore, CRC has continued to run the FAL Programme in the communities of Kamuli, Buyende, Luuka and Bugiri Districts. The program is currently running in 10 villages of Luuka district.
More importantly, the curriculum is available and the a textbook entitled: “Gwolekera Abato”. Other groups or NGOs that are dealing with the promotion of literacy can as access it from the Cultural Research Centre.