Donate to Save the Children and Help Kids Learn to Read

The Born To Read Campaign

Literacy skills among Britain’s poorest children are a real problem, with one in four leaving primary school unable to read properly. Failure to tackle the issue at an early stage can lead to isolation, a lack of qualifications and eventually problems finding employment in adulthood. All of these in turn contribute to the damaging cycle of deprivation. Save the Children has launched its Born To Read campaign to help tackle the issue early on. By training volunteers and providing them with the necessary resources, they will work with schools to offer support to those children most in need of a little extra support. By 2017 they hope to have transformed the literacy skills and life-chances of at least 23,000 children.

Choose from the following options (outcomes are only examples of what donation amounts could support):

• £5 for a 30-minute reading session between a volunteer and child

• £10 for two educational books to help a child learn to read

• £34 for one-to-one volunteer support for a child for one month

Save the Children

Save the Children works in 120 countries including the UK. They save children’s lives, fight for their rights and help them fulfil their potential. Since the charity was founded in the early 20th century, their vision has been to achieve and protect the rights of children. Save the Children has developed world-class programmes that deliver change for child poverty, hunger, education, health and child protection. Recently Save the Children has provided children and their families with life-saving aid to emergency situations such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines and the on-going conflict in Syria.

All images courtesy of Jonathan Hyams/Save the Children