DAY 9
You’ve Symbolically Helped One Family Access High-Quality Books for Their Child
Together with Worldreader
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What is your positive impact today?
Today, you’ve symbolically helped one family access high-quality books that improve their child’s reading comprehension. The family you’ve supported can now access an online library of more than 2,700 children’s books in various major and local languages—from primers that teach early literacy concepts and stories that support social-emotional learning to books that champion climate action and the empowerment of women and girls.
This is part of a broader program, called BookSmart, that helps get children reading around the world and for which the contribution of your good deed will be used. And the best thing: 99.6% of parents said that they read more with their children because of it.
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Why is your impact important?
Worldwide at least 765 million adults still cannot read and write, two-thirds of them women, and 250 million children are failing to acquire basic literacy skills. Only a third of 10-year-olds globally are estimated to be able to read and understand a simple written story; the other around two-thirds (64%) are unable to cover this marker for minimum proficiency in reading comprehension.
And in the US, 65% of children cannot read or understand a simple story. 4th-grade reading scores are lower now than just a few years ago, with only 35% of students showing reading proficiency.
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How are we achieving your impact together?
Our impactful partner for today is Worldreader. They provide books to those in need, especially in digital form, to the most remote areas of the world, where people have very limited access to compelling and relevant reading material.
They foster curiosity and learning for children worldwide through their BookSmart app, which can be accessed by families on any device, free of cost. With 2,700+ titles and learning activities in multiple languages, each book completed on BookSmart helps children and their families improve their reading comprehension, learn valuable social-emotional skills, and become more digitally literate.
More About Worldreader
Worldreader was founded in 2010 to get children reading so they can reach their potential. Since then, they have supported over 22 million readers in 100+ countries and were awarded the 2023 US Library of Congress Literacy Award for advancing global literacy. Today, they are headquartered in the US with representations in Kenya, Spain, and the UK.
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
– Barack Obama; 44th president of the United States
