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BOOKS + LITERACY PROJECTS
 Project LitStartTANZANIA WBO has provided funding for The Foundation For Tomorrow's new program LitStart: Building Literacy From Home to School. Designed to improve early literacy outcomes for children aged 3 to 8 this program will empower parents and caregivers, strengthen teacher capacity, and activate community support to foster a culture of reading. |  Reading CaraVAN of HopePHILIPPINES Launched in 2025 the Reading CaraVAN of Hope will serve as a new bookmobile for nonprofit Dagdag Dunong Reading Center. With Ms. Ana Bacudio in the driver's seat, it will bring books and stories, literacy materials, food and water to those in need. |  Publishing Books in KiswahiliTANZANIA An initiative of Writers for WaterBridge Outreach Book is publishing books in the native language of communities with limited teaching and learning resources, and where any access to books is especially difficult. The first completed project was the production of 8,000 booklets in Kiswahili in close collaboration with Melissa Queyquep of The Foundation for Tomorrow in Tanzania. |
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 Learning Centre Literacy LabTANZANIA A grant from WaterBridge Outreach is enabling The Foundation for Tomorrow to establish an innovative Literacy Lab in their new state-of-the-art Learning Centre, a first-of-its-kind community hub in Arusha. Completion date scheduled for June 2023. |  Chey LibraryCAMBODIA The construction and outfitting of Chey Library in Cambodia is our fourth literacy project with Ponheary Ly Foundation . Chey Library is unique in that it will focus entirely on secondary school students, and completes PLF's 12 year journey in providing carefully curated book selections and resources for over 2,800 students of all grade levels in four marginalized communities. |  Umeed the Camel LibraryPAKISTAN WaterBridge Outreach is excited to be part of ALBBS camel mobile libraries project. Umeed (Hope), the sixth camel library, sponsored by WaterBridge Outreach commenced delivering books and literacy materials to children in Kohlu, Balochistan in July 2021. |
 Free Tuition (Tutoring) CentresTAMIL NADU, INDIA WaterBridge Outreach provides books + literacy materials to after-school (free) tuition centers run by Save INT'L near Mamallapuram, India. These centres play a vital role not only in helping the children learn English, but also in preparing them for their national 10th grade exams and future life. |  Sarah's Rural LibrariesPERU We are delighted to share that WaterBridge Outreach has a new literacy project in South America! We are working with Sarah's Rural Library - Bibliotecas Rurales to help them in their mission to bring books and education to impoverished people of the Andes in Peru. |  Library at Srayang Learning CenterCAMBODIA Following upon the success of the construction and equipping of a library for Romchek Primary School in Cambodia, we engaged in a 2nd project with with Ponheary Ly Foundation (PLF): the funding for a vital, much-needed library at Srayang Learning Center. Srayang Learning Center is specifically geared to students in grades 7 - 12 and provides various enrichment programs to students to succeed through high school. |
 The Merasi SchoolRAJASTHAN, INDIA The children of the Merasi School are considered untouchable. As such they are denied access to most education. Since 2010 WaterBridge Outreach has been working to put books into the hands of Merasi School students. |  Romchek School LibraryCAMBODIA Working alongside Ponheary Ly Foundation, WaterBridge Outreach financed the construction and equipping of a library for Romchek Primary School in Preah Vihear Province.The library building is two stories and, with the school rapidly growing with 235+ students in grades K - 6, the ground floor provides much needed additional classroom space. |  Knar Community LibraryCAMBODIA This library ended up being completely different from anything PLF had done previously. While it still serves older students, the library has drawn in a totally unexpected group hungry for books and literacy. By listening closely to this "new market" (composed of mostly young mothers and grandmas: literate but not well educated) the library space has been transformed into something completely unexpected and truly wonderful!! |
 The Literacy Kitchen ProjectKENYA The Literacy Kitchen building is located in the Literacy Garden where students learn how to grow and harvest food using small scale sustainable bio-intensive gardening techniques. The Literacy Kitchen provides an indoor location where students can develop their language and numeracy skills, self-expression and self-esteem by reading, writing and following recipes during cooking sessions.The building will also be used for poetry, storytelling and writing workshops. |  2nd Dagdag Dunong Reading CenterPHILIPPINES WaterBridge Outreach worked with Dagdag Dunong Reading Center to construct a reading/literacy center for indigenous and impoverished Mangyan children residing in Baco, Philippines. This is our 2nd project with Dagdag Dunong, the first being the Jeepney of Hope mobile library. |  Now Africa LibraryUGANDA With help from WaterBridge Outreach and Writers for WaterBridge, Now Africa Initiative was able to purchase books and build furnishings to begin the first step in completing the long-anticipated Now Africa Library at Karama Education Center. |
 Library In a BoxPAKISTAN WaterBridge Outreach has provided financial support to the Alif Laila Book Bus Society in Lahore, Pakistan to purchase new books to be included in their Library In a Box project. This project will result in 640 boxes of books being distributed to rural schools without libraries in Pakistan. |  Tuition Center RoofTAMIL NADU, INDIA A second initiative that was enabled by JosephJoseph participation in the London Color Run (see Anna Nagar water project) was a partial reconstruction of the Kazhanipakkam Assembly Hall to include a steel sheet pitched roof over the whole building and the installation of lighting and security gates. This area provides additional space for children attending the free tuition (tutoring) school located on the main floor. |  Covid-19 SupportDuring the pandemic our priority was to assist our partner organizations with their immediate needs - providing the basics of life (food and water) to families in their communities. All of us strugged during this unprecedented time but for those already living on the brink of life, in poverty, without food security, without access to healthcare, and without access to clean water (to drink and to wash hands), with minimal (if any) government support, the need was especially acute. |
 Mobile LibraryPHILIPPINES With funding provided by WaterBridge Outreach, the Dagdag Dunong Reading Center has launched a mobile library - the Jeepney of Hope to bring books + literacy materials to impoverished indigenous children in remote areas of the Philippines. |  Alif Laila Book Bus SocietyPAKISTAN Alif Laila Book Bus Society is a NGO working to promote quality education, reading and libraries for children in Lahore, Pakistan. We are delighted to be able to partner with them and assist them in bringing books + literacy materials to the children they serve. |  Dignity for Children Fdn.KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA Teaching and learning through stories and storytelling are at the heart of the curriculum at Dignity for Children Foundation, a school on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur that serves disengaged children from underprivileged families in urban and rural areas. Join us in adding much needed books to their classroom book corners! |
 Humara Apna School (Bamboo School)PAKISTAN We are thrilled to continue our collaboration with Alif Laila Book Bus Society by funding the construction of Humara Apna School (Bamboo School). Set in a structure crafted from eco-friendly, cost-effective, and flood-resistant bamboo with solar panels on the roof, this institution is not just a school but a beacon of sustainable development and progressive education. While the focus is on educating girls, younger boys will be a part of the student body too. |  Mobile LibraryTAMIL NADU, INDIA This motorbike mobile library serves villages in a remote rural area south of Chennai. Mr. Venkatesan is the librarian-teacher who takes the books from one village to another on his 100cc motorbike |
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