Take Action!

Take Action!

United4Literacy offers many opportunities to get involved, besides donating money. Our volunteers and partners help children in need by providing books, stationeries, school uniforms, and hosting special events.  Those are some of the ways United4Literacy supporters reach out to help impoverished, imperiled children in need. You can also take action by:

Advocacy
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Stay Informed
Spread the Word
Join Our Social Networks
Volunteer

Teach India - A Great Initiative

Teach India

Teach India is a social initiative from The Times of India that brings together children in need of education and people who can contribute a little time towards teaching them. It is based on one simple principle: If you have the desire to teach, we will put you in touch with children who are willing to learn. To begin with, we are rolling it out in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. We hope to extend it to more cities next year after we have perfected the logistics. The United Nations Volunteers program is a partner with the Times of India for the Teach India initiative and will provide expertise as well as ongoing technical support in volunteer management. With over 60 NGOs, corporates, schools and social organizations already supporting our cause, we now look for selfless individuals to come forward and help change the future of a child forever, by giving just a few hours a week to Teach India.

UNITED4LITERACY - "Each One, Teach One"

The Cost of Illiteracy

Cost of Illiteracy-UNITE AGAINST IT

About 800 million people across the world lack the basic reading and writing skills needed to accomplish simple tasks such as reading a medicine label or filling out a job application , costing the global economy more than $1.19 trillion a year, according to a new report, 'Economic and Social Cost of Illiteracy' released at the World Literacy Summit at Oxford in association with Pearson. The summit aimed to put in place a sustainable action plan to deal with the problem of illiteracy.

The report looks at the cost of illiteracy in emerging and developing countries, as well as the cost of functional illiteracy in the developed world. It reveals that globally, over one in five people can't read or write and more than 100 million children don't go to school each day. The report explores both the economic and the social costs of illiteracy.

~New Website!~

We have created a new website for our mission.
Please visit www.united4literacy.org
This website will run alongside this blog
A few seconds of your time, just a few ideas and suggestions could build the futures of countless children
If you would like to unite alongside us please fill out the contact us form on our website.

Welcome Members!

United4Literacy is a venture started to create a chain to successfully educate children in poverty around the world. Through informing our members about our initiatives of helping within our own communities, we plan to create a web page where members can share their experiences and share what they do to help in their own communities. By doing this we will accomplish our only goal, to provide and learn new ideas and insight on how to combat illiteracy among the poor.

Our Mission
Mission Statement:

CHILDREN ARE THE FUTURE OF OUR WORLD -
I hear this in North America so many times. A cliché that is overused completely. But what about so many countries around the world where there are children, but with no future, the forgotten and helpless without education. An education is not just a requirement by law, it is perhaps the most powerful tool a person can possess, and it is a right of every child according to the Convention of the Rights of a Child. But, unfortunately in many places around the world this right will remain a dream. Unless, we the children reach out and empower the forgotten, the child labourers and slaves in remote parts of Asia. They could bring change and solve other issues in our world. This initiative could drive a transformation of our world from a place to live in to a palace to live in. Empowering these Forgotten Children, that is our mission.