Educate and teach children in Zambia to read

OperationREAD was created to provide literacy support to schools and the Mongu community in of schoolchildren to read and general. More specifically the OperationREAD GlobalGiving campaign was designed to help provide the funding needed to teach out of school children to read a well as the construction of a library.
In addition to out of school children, OperationREAD was expanded to include children in school that were struggling to read. With funding from donors though GlobalGiving, a piece of land was also acquired for the construction of a library.
The program however has encountered challenges in reaching its fundraising goals, as s result,  the program has been suspended in ten schools and will currently run only at the local library.
Even with funding challenges, we continue to make progress. While the number of beneficiaries has reduced considerably with the suspension of the program schools, we continue to reach the community’s most vulnerable providing them with an opportunity for learning that would otherwise be denied to them. 
Forty students have been enrolled into the upcoming classes being twenty children and adults. The classes are scheduled to in Mid May. It is hoped that the reading program will resume in the schools with the availability of the much needed resources.
We continue to encourage new and previous donors to consider rendering their financial support to help meet program objectives.

OperationREAD continues to run its reading campaign while facing considerable funding challenges.

In addition to ongoing programs OperationREAD is adding two reading initiatives to help increase the number of program beneficiaries

We are grateful to have been recipients of a collection of children’s books from American author Karen Lyn Williams who has generously donated five titles from her children’s books. The beautifully illustrated titles are a wonderful addition to our reading initiatives for children and will go a long way in helping children learn to read.

A remedial reading initiative in also started at Mulambwa Basic School working with students to help improve their reading level to that of their grade level. 50 students are currently being enrolled for the initiative whose goal is to bring the students up to their reading level by the end of the year.

Even with considerable challenges, the initiative continues to achieve significant results. It is envisioned that recent changes to the fundraising strategy will help increase donations to support effective implementation.

Given the initiative is completely reliant on individual donations, we continue to encourage supporters to support the initiative by making a donation as well as share the project with their networks.

We thank past donors for their kind and generous support and continue to urge them to consider making a retainer gift to help meet project objectives.