ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½

The World Bank Group held its Community Connections Campaign in November and December 2020, and recently informed ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ that the campaign resulted in over $3,000 in pledges for the 2021 calendar year from 36 World Bank Group employee donors.

Gifts from World Bank Group employees are being generously matched at 200% by World Bank Group corporate funds, boosting the impact of this campaign to nearly $10,000.

According to Former World Bank Senior Economist Rudi Steinbach:

The acquisition of reading proficiency helps set a critical foundation in children that enables the development of other important cognitive and life skills. According to World Bank data, learning poverty – the inability of children to read and understand simple text by the age of 10 – is a particularly acute challenge in Sub-Saharan ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½, with nearly nine of 10 children in the region considered learning poor. ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½â€™s initiatives are helping to address this immense literacy challenge by putting books into the hands of those learners in ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ who need them most.

ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½ is very pleased to be the recipient of this support and is excited to use it towards its mission of ending the book famine in ÌÇÐÄvlgo´«Ã½.