Alaska Literacy Program honors women from around the world. ALP will be holding a  second annual luncheon fundraiser on March 7th, 2009. International Women's Day is on March 8th of each year and has been observed since 1911 as a rally campaigning for the woman's right to work, vote, and hold public office. That same year, the "Triangle Fire" in New York City, where 140 working women, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants, lost their lives, became the focal point for the United States involvement in the IWD events.

Two-thirds of the world's illiterate are women, and victims of human rights abuse and gender discrimination.