There are more than 617 million children globally who are not achieving a basic level of education.
Every child has a right to learn:
Education can help children break free from poverty, challenge gender and cultural expectations, and contribute to build stronger communities.
Library For All provides access to culturally relevant, age appropriate books in a language and context children understand and relate to. Without these types of educational tools, children face a lifetime of illiteracy and its consequences, including discrimination, inequality, poor health and low opportunity.
By helping every child currently enrolled at school in a low-literacy country to read, an estimated 171 million people could be lifted out of poverty (UNESCO, 2014). In turn, global poverty would reduce by 12%, and individual earning capacity would increase by 10%. And that’s just the beginning.