Happy International Literacy Day

Happy International Literacy Day everyone! On this great day, we want to share a story from one of our beneficiaries.

Agatha,  is one of our beneficiaries from our Build a House, Build a Home project. She is a very clever girl but comes from a poor background where the parents have struggled to afford to send their children to school and to find the time to help them with homework. She only has access to books and writing materials at school and even they suffer from a limited supply. That, however, has not stopped Agatha. She has a passion for learning and has just received a star from school for excelling at her work. She’s only 5 and already speaks and writes a little English! We are so proud of her and her sisters and are looking forward to seeing her continue to shine in the years to come.

Literacy breaks barriers and builds bridges. That is why literacy plays such a key role in all the projects we have and charities we support.

Nobody said it better than Kofi Annan:

“Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right…. Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.”