Welthy Honsinger Fisher

She was an intellectual, and activist requested by her friend Mohandas Gandhi to begin Literacy House outside of Lucknow, India, at the age of 73.

[1][3][4] After graduating from Syracuse University in 1900,[5][6] Honsinger became a teacher at Rosebud College, a one-room school in Haverstraw, New York, where she was in charge of 15 students.

[7] During the 1940s, Fisher spent "semesters" studying the educational systems of Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, India and the Middle East.

[1] In December, 1947, six weeks before his death, Gandhi urged Fisher to return to his country to continue her work in education in India's villages.

Deciding that literacy training linked with agricultural and industrial development was a key strategy to eradicate poverty, Fisher broke with Laubach.