The Need

Illiteracy
Asia is home to half the human race. Rampant illiteracy means close to one billion people have no voice. 64% of girls between ages 6-14 do not attend school. FreeSchools is presently focusing on supporting women and children in India and Thailand where hardships are extreme.

Poverty and ignorance breed illiteracy. Being illiterate means life presents fewer choices, the status quo remains, and so the cycle continues. This vicious cycle has enslaved women and children for centuries. FreeSchools World Literacy can break this cycle with your help.

Education is the KEY
The United Nations has declared a decade of literacy in their “Education for All” Campaign. Illiteracy is a solvable problem. With your help we can provide an opportunity for every child to lean to read and write.

A 2004 quote from UN Secretary General Kofi Annam states “there is no tool for development more effective than the education of girls and the empowerment of women. No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower infant and maternal mortality, or improve nutrition and promote health including the prevention of HIV/AIDS.”

Education is a tool – it combats hunger, poverty, disease and despair.
Education helps reduce the hardships of women and children – violence, inequality, child labour, and over population. Education can alleviate the acute and widespread suffering of innocent people.

International economists agree that the single best investment to improve economic well being in developing nations is GIRLS EDUCATION.