Being able to read is the most critical skill a child can learn. It is the gateway to all other learning outcomes. Not learning to read in early years, will limit options and opportunities for a life-time.
Fund impactful organisations working to boost literacy across Africa
Connect our partners and other key stakeholders in the literacy space to build collaboration and increase collective impact
Commission research to generate needed evidence
Advocate for more and better philanthropy in literacy
We're dreaming of a world where all children in
Africa can read and write by the age of 10.
...all children in Africa finished school with reading and writing skills..?
There would be a 12% reduction in poverty across the continent.
Because education is key to fighting poverty; it enables people to address the root causes, instead of responding to symptoms, thus lifting whole communities out of poverty.
reduction in poverty
worldwide
Being able to read is the most critical skill a child can learn. It is the gateway to all other learning outcomes. Not learning to read in early years, will limit options and opportunities for a life-time.
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