We believe an educated community is empowered, creating opportunities for their people, ensuring a sustainable and societal transformation that passes from one generation to the next.
We focus on providing quality education to enable development through generations in order to produce change-makers. We aim to reach the most vulnerable — providing opportunity for all.
We empower people, embedding sustainability in everything we do. We strive to ensure localisation in programme delivery and embrace new technologies and innovation in our approach.
We maintain our focus on education to ensure our specialism and expertise — never diluting our impact by spreading too thin across sectors.
We strive to ensure the best possible impact of our programmes and continually evaluate our work for evidence-based learning, so every dollar goes further.
We ensure that we are principled in all we do and how we do it — from how we raise funds to how we deliver programmes in the field.
Our 2022–2026 Global Strategy is built on three interconnected pillars — each one essential, each one reinforcing the others.
Millions of children are locked out of education by poverty, displacement, and conflict. We remove those barriers by funding school places, materials, and sponsorships — ensuring no child misses out simply because of circumstance.
The physical environment is the third teacher. We build and upgrade purpose-built schools in areas of greatest need — safe, well-resourced spaces that inspire learning and give children the dignity they deserve.
It takes a village to raise a child. We grow the capacity of entire school communities — teachers, parents, and administrators — so that quality education becomes self-sustaining long after we leave.
Poverty is the most important factor determining whether a girl can access education. Around 15 million girls will never get the opportunity to attend school. READ Foundation is committed to changing that — proactively ensuring equity in numbers between boys and girls in every school we operate.
We provide girls safe and comfortable learning spaces and carry out girl-specific programmes in areas where female enrollment is underrepresented. We embed the principle of "Leave No One Behind" — reaching marginalised children, those with disabilities, and displaced communities through inclusive programmes.
Every girl who receives an education is more likely to ensure her own children receive one too. The results are generational.