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- EIN 86-0980836
- Po Box 23811 Tempe AZ 85285-3811 USA
- www.booksforabetterworld.org
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Causes: Education, International, International Development, Libraries, Primary & Elementary Schools, Scholarships, Scholarships & Student Financial Aid
Mission: Literacy is the dedicated purpose of Books for a Better World. It seeks to enfranchise, to empower and to motivate children in developing nations by establishing libraries and scholarship programs. It was established to help break the cycle of illiteracy that cripples developing nations. The school day is usually dull and unstimulating. Often, there are no books. The students spend the day copying and taking dictation. There is little reason to attend school thus the children drop out and illiteracy continues. In rural schools in Central America as many as 75% of all children are in grades 1 -3. Most children have never seen a book that is not a schoolbook and there is little connection between learning the vowels, learning to sound out words and reading a story. Children's literature increases a children's ability to imagine, to think analytically and to experience the world with greater compassion. The ability to read is empowering.The scholarship element of the program helps to keep motivated students from families in poverty stay in school by providing funds for school supplies, fees, uniforms, and transportation.
