The literacy rate for adults ages 15 years and older in Sierra Leone is only 49%.
In a country that has faced Ebola and civil war in recent years, young children can’t get the education they deserve. High shipping costs and dangerous conditions prevent outside help from reaching those who need it most.
When you don’t have an education, you don’t have dreams. Many children are forced to grow up dreamless – unaware that their poverty stricken lives can get better.
As children become adults, their inability to communicate serves as a barrier to daily acts, such as reading traffic lights, filling out job applications, or simply having their own identity.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), in Sierra Leone, around 39% of the richest children demonstrate foundational reading and numeracy skills, while only an alarming 3% of poorest children do.
Readary’s mission is to bring quality educational materials to those who need it most. Our mobile library partners bring books to all corners of rural Sierra Leone, benefitting 20 schools and counting.
To help these children develop their own dreams for the future, Readary delivers free fiction books, academic textbooks, and fruitful dictionaries straight to their schools.
Bobby, a primary school teacher, testifies, “My students tore open the boxes of books so quickly, they were so excited…it felt like Christmas morning”. After receiving the books, all 480 of Bobby’s students were on track to read at their grade level within 3 months.
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