Literacy for Living Stones

Literacy for Living Stones is working with the International School of Carpina, Brazil, to provide books and involve the students in a program to read with and tutor the children from Living Stones. Literacy for Living Stones has two steps:

1. Provide books. Most of the kids do not own books. For Children’s day (October 12), we will be having a celebration of learning, giving the children their very own book and getting them excited about reading.
2. Provide helpers. Classrooms are overcrowded and the teachers do not have time for the one on one attention needed for reading skills. The older students at the International School, as well as other volunteers, will come to Living Stones to give this individual time to the children who most need it.

One out of three children in rural Northeast Brazil is illiterate or significantly behind their grade level for reading. They come from homes where their parents still sign their name with a thumbprint. Many children end up dropping out of school because they cannot pass their grade without reading. It is time to change this cycle of poverty, and provide these children with basic reading skills.

Help us with our celebration of learning by donating money for a Living Stones Library, and books for these children to have at home. Ongoing resources are also needed for transportation costs of volunteers to read/tutor with the children.

www.wribrazil.com/literacy