United4Literacy is an initiative that is taken to tackle child illiteracy in low literacy areas around the world. Our primary focused target area for this year is India, a nation of over a billion people with over 400 million children. Over 50% of these children are estimated to be illiterate. We wish to change this. What we do is put into motion our two missions to change this startling statistic in India. Our missions are both cloud based and ground based. Our cloud based mission makes use of the online world, for example: blogs, social media, and this very site. The goal of the cloud based mission is to spread awareness of how important literacy is. Literacy is considered as a useless tool in many areas; we wish to change this opinion. We wish to show people that literacy is knowledge, knowledge is wisdom, wisdom is happiness, and happiness is life. Our ground based mission is our more direct approach to help illiterate children. We operate teams in India that work with local organizations and charities to help send illiterate children to school or to help children continue their schooling. Our ground based missions are targeted to ensure that poverty does not become an obstacle in one starting or continuing their schooling. Because, once one embarks on the lifelong journey of learning, they never look back.

Want to get involved?

If you are an individual who shares our united vision you can get involved by creating a local chapter of United4Literacy. A little of your time could make a lasting impact on the lives of countless children in your area!

Check out how you can open a local chapter in your community:

• In your respective region, you can open a local chapter of united4literacy. This local chapter will be a “ground based” organization which will operate semi-independently to promote and spread literacy in any way possible. This local chapter can help to educate minority or illiterate children and then report their success stories back to us!
• A possible way to educate children in this ground based approach is to gather a group of volunteers who are willing to donate only their time to help educate children. There are many benefits to donating time in such a way. The volunteer will gain experience working with children, volunteer work can be put on a resume, and volunteer work is essential to the applications for many universities and scholarships (ex. North American Universities, Rhodes Scholarships, etc…). These volunteers may commit time based on their schedule as long as it is consistent, for example one hour a week.

As long as the facility is safe, it is up to you where you best feel studies can be conducted.

• Let the volunteers commit their time. Volunteers must stay at least 3 months to be formally acknowledged by us. Formal acknowledgement comes in form of a certificate of volunteer work provided by United4Literacy whenever they wish after a period of 3 months of volunteering. We will encourage volunteers to stay as long as they can since time volunteered will be written on the certificate.
• If you are interested in our plan, I would like to hear back from you and we can create a united4literacy chapter in your region with you as the leader! After a period of one year we plan to provide funds for books and supplies for the children. Until then there are many online resources available to be printed and I will specifically give them to you upon your response should be interested in our plan.
• Upon your response we can also provide promotional materials and letters to help in recruitment of volunteers and for facility. However, I leave it up to you to obtain facility and directly recruit volunteers.
• Please note:
  • United4Literacy Canada reserves all rights. Local chapters will operate semi-independently, whereby they will still be liable to respond to me on matters of facility, finance, volunteers and work being done.

Would you like to get involved or have any questions? Please contact us!