Welcome to Share Literacy
Mission and goals:
Our mission is to address and reduce the growing literacy gap between rich privileged and poor at risk children and their families. Share Literacy promotes the development of reading and thinking skills by partnering with established early childhood education agencies serving poverty-level and low-income families, with after-school programs and with organizations providing ESL and adult literacy instruction. Program goals:
Hoopoe Books Program Launch
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Winter 2008: Children in Mexico receiving kits from Fundación CIE which included Hoopoe Spanish-language books. Hoopoe Books was able to provide these books at cost to this philanthropic organization which provides educational material to families and children in need. |
Books for Afghanistan Project: Repatriation of
Traditional Teaching-Stories to Aid Literacy
In 2007, we re-applied to the Ministry of Education in Kabul, as per their instructions, and obtained current approval to continue with our project of repatriating Hoopoe traditional Teaching-Stories to Afghanistan. Collected and written for children by Afghan writer and scholar Idries Shah, these stories occupy a permanent place in the region's cultural traditions.
NATO-ISAF has now printed 250,000 copies of The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water by Idries Shah and will distribute them to Afghan school children.
This commemorates the 800th anniversary of the Afghan poet and thinker Jalalludin Rumi, who first documented this story.
Through NATO-ISAF we are now in direct correspondence with the Kabuli printer and have received sample copies of this first Dari-Pashto Hoopoe title, assuring us of the quality of their work.
We continue to raise funds to print the first of the other Dari-Pashto bilingual editions of Hoopoe Books, five of which are now ready to print.
We are actively seeking a well-established NGO with a presence both here and in Afghanistan to partner with us to arrange for in-country administration and distribution to the school children of Afghanistan.
Matching-Gift
Again this year, we can double the value of your donation! ISHK has received a generous opportunity to match a gift-grant of $300,000 with donations in 2008. This grant has been given to us by The Will J. Reid Foundation. This means that your donations this year will be worth twice as much. To donate via our secure web-donation device, click here.
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Share Literacy Volunteer Chapter News!
To join a volunteer Share Literacy Chapter in your area,
or to start one of your own click here.
Right, Share Literacy volunteer, Dan Sperling, talking to a shopper looking for alternative gifts at the Takoma Park, MD, Alternative Gift Fair put on by www.aggw.org. Click here for Share Literacy Alternative Gifts. |
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