World Literacy Foundation

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The World Literacy Foundation (WLF) is a global non-profit organization striving to ensure that every child, regardless of geographic location, has the opportunity to acquire literacy skills and books to reach their full potential – succeeding at school and beyond. The World Literacy Foundation was established in Melbourne, Australia to bring books, tutoring, and literacy resources to children without any support.
We envision a world in which every one of us can read and write, with free access to education for all.
AtWLF, we believe in literacy as the foundation of lifelong learning and education. People who cannot read or write experience difficulties with simple everyday tasks such as reading the label of a medicine bottle, filling in a job application or understanding a traffic sign. When we help someone to acquire literacy skills, we empower them to access to better opportunities in life to break the poverty cycle.

What we do: We're Changing Children’s Lives Through Literacy
• We provide children with books and educational resources, so they can discover the joy of reading.
• We bring literacy support to disadvantaged children who are struggling to read and write.
• We gather global literacy leaders and organizations to share ideas and collaborate within the sector.
• We bring together innovative technology, e-books, and digital activities to advance the learning of children in remote communities in their mother tongue and English.
• We are a global voice to spread and promote the importance of literacy, we empower people to advocate in their local community for this cause.
• We involve parents in mentoring programs to help them instill the love of reading in their children and create a habit of reading at home.


Key projects and activities:
• Sun Books: Impacting children in rural and remote schools in Uganda, Kenya and Nigeria by
• providing e-libraries of local books on a solar panel tablet device.
• Aprende Leyendo: Impacting children in 3 locations in Colombia with literacy classes, reading groups and the provision of digital devices to increase access to e-books.
• UK Reads: Increasing children’s book ownership in low-income communities with special literacy classes to help children struggling to read.
• USA Reads: Bringing books to children in underserved and disadvantaged zip codes with a focus on providing kindle devices to children who are suffering from serious illnesses.
• ROOP: Working with children from migrant, refugee and low- income backgrounds to help them discover the joy of reading.
• WLF Australia – Indigenous: To build bilingual children’s books into local Indigenous languages and English.
• Youth Ambassadors: To engage and develop the leadership of 3,000 young people globally to be a voice, an advocate and change maker for literacy in their communities. Our ambassador program is an incredible platform to interact, share and strengthen togetherness with other like-minded people determined to eradicate illiteracy worldwide.
• Beyond words, the Literacy Podcast aims to bring together experts and change-makers to discuss crucial issues in creating a literate world, such as access, equity, and the role of technology in learning. Guests will offer valuable perspectives on how to ensure high-quality literacy education for all.
• World Literacy Taskforce: To bring together 30 global business leaders to invest their time, money and knowledge into the eradication of illiteracy in 50 cities around the globe by 2040.
• World Literacy Summit: The gathering of 500 literacy specialist from 54 countries to work together and build collaborations to solve the challenges in the literacy sector.
• Advocacy: In 2022, we created global campaigns to give focus to literacy on special days like: International Literacy Day, World; Book Day and International; Women’s Day. We used both social and broadcast media to create awareness and education around the topic of literacy

Lorena Torres is the World Literacy Foundation (WLF) Ambassador Coordinator.

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