MEASURING IMPACT

Over the last three years, together with our local partners, we helped more than 1.2 million girls and boys at over 4,500 schools become more confident readers. This includes our Girls’ Accelerated Learning Initiative in Liberia, which concluded last year with an accelerated promotion rate of 82%. Students in Grades 1 to 3 also scored 22% higher in reading comprehension compared to students not participating in the program.

Since 2022, initiatives such as the Transforming Girls’ Education Project in Sierra Leone and Better Education through Teacher Training and Empowerment for Results (BETTER) in Mozambique have helped train and empower 26,914 teachers across Africa. Through BETTER, the percentage of teachers achieving “excellent competency” assessment scores increased to 67% — more than double the baseline before the program began.

Working alongside our local partners and supporters, we have distributed 966,036 books over the past three years. Developed by local authors and illustrators, these colorful, curriculum aligned books and anthologies are full of stories children can see themselves in. One example is our Training and Supporting Teachers in Sierra Leone project in partnership with UNICEF, which distributed more than half a million early-grade reading books and reached over 220,000 students.