Educate Young People about the Environment

OperationREAD is a ProjectEDUCATE initiative designed to help educate and teach children in Zambia to read. Last year, we embarked on a partnership with GlobalGiving Designed to help raise funds to support project implementation. While the initial phase was met with success, subsequent phases have been fraught with challenges, of which funding is not the least.

With the funds that were raised in phase one, we were able to make significant strides and were able to introduce the initiative into a total of 10 schools. Working with schools to identify struggling children and provide them with the one on one support they needed to improve their reading skills.

In phase one, we were also able to engage technology to help improve reading skills among primary school going children. This also was met with considerable success as both teachers and students were eager to try out new techniques and technology offered them a different way to learn, breaking down the pattern of monotony enshrined in current teaching methods.

Unfortunately the gains made in the first phase of the project are being undermined by the lack of resources. While implementation has continued at a slow pace relying mainly on the efforts and support of volunteer personnel, the project will have to fold if we cannot raise the remaining funds in the next few months.

We encourage previous donors to consider making a tax-deductible contribution to help sustain the project. Further we also encourage donors and would be donors to help spread the word about their project by sharing the work with their networks. There is strength in numbers and we certain, with their continued support, we can help educate and teach children in Zambia to read.