4 people from Hindko trained in Language Vitality Survey

The FLI conducted a six-day workshop in the Hindko speech community called, “Workshop for Planning the Future of Our Language” on April 19-24, 2018 in Abbotabad city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.  In the workshop, four participants from same Hindko speech community, among them two were females, trained as mother tongue facilitators. The main purpose of this workshop was to train MT facilitators from the Hindko speech community to use The Guide to facilitate discussions with representatives in their respective speech communities to increase awareness about language use, develop plans for the future of their language and engage more people in different ways to carry out those plans and achieve their goals. The main objective of this workshop was to equip Hindko MT facilitators to lead a series of discussions and meetings which focus initially on the questions included in The Guide and then continue as necessary in order to carry out relevant plans.A plan was devised to work for strengthen of that speech community for future use of their language.