Numbers tell us the scale of our impact. Stories tell us why it matters. Meet the children, teachers, and communities whose lives have been transformed by education.
What began with one teacher and 25 students in a mountain village has grown into a movement that has changed hundreds of thousands of lives. We trace the three decades of READ Foundation's journey.
In the refugee camps outside Beirut, children who've fled war and lost everything sit in a converted bus and learn to read. For them, it is the most normal thing in the world.
A hot breakfast might seem like a small thing. But in Yemen's most vulnerable communities, it is the difference between a child coming to school or spending the day searching for food.
In communities where girls are often kept home to help with chores, the promise of a nutritious school meal has become an unexpected but powerful driver of gender equity in education.
When schools were destroyed and families displaced, READ Foundation's educators refused to stop. They found spaces — community halls, tents, open fields — and kept teaching.
Zara grew up in a READ school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Today, she's one of the organization's most celebrated teachers — proof that our investment in education compounds over generations.
Monthly updates on the children we serve, the schools we build, and the communities we empower.