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Feed the Mind: Give a Child in rural and urban Africa the Gift of Reading and the Promise of Literacy
Posted September 16, 2012 by IcenWorld
Why “For everyone everywhere, literacy is a basic human right.” – Kofi Annan, Former UN Secretary-General. Improving literacy is essential for empowering people, eradicating poverty, reducing child mortality, improving public health, achieving gender equality and ensuring sustainable development and peace in the developing world. The key to all literacy is reading. Giving children in developing [...]
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“Poverty is NOT an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.”
Nelson Mandela
“I continue to believe that if children are given the necessary tools to succeed, they will succeed beyond their wildest dreams.”
David VitterUS Senator
“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”
Mother Teresa
“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”
Albert Einstein
“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
Frederick Douglass