Winter 2011

The Right - and Room - to Read

If quality basic education is every child’s right, then the San Francisco-based Room to Read and AKU’s Institute for Educational Development in East Africa (IED, EA), supported by the Awali Reads project, are poised to substantially improve the literacy rates of primary school students in east Tanzania and Zanzibar. It is the Canada-based Awali group’s second venture, building on their successful partnership with AKU that helped in setting-up IED in Dar es Salaam five years ago...