At-home learning is more important than ever. However, poverty can seriously restrict children’s access to resources outside the classroom that they need to thrive. When children are deprived of interaction with adults or experience persistent stress, their young minds are susceptible to damaging effects on learning, development, wellbeing and health, which can last their entire lives.
Reaching the most vulnerable
For children living in extreme poverty, girls and those with few books or no one to read to them at home, the chance to reach their full potential is even further out of reach. That’s why Save the Children’s education experts support children, caregivers and schools to develop children’s literacy skills from birth into their school years.
Literacy Boost
For elementary school children, our education experts developed Literacy Boost – our proven response to the global literacy
crisis. We now provide Literacy Boost in 36 countries, with evidence showing that participating students improve reading
comprehension by an average of 30%, and they’re up to 40% more likely to progress to third grade.