Read Aloud, Change the World
On February 1, millions of people around the world are reading aloud in recognition of World Read Aloud Day. Ten years ago, an organization called LitWorld was founded after Pam Allyn, literacy educator and author, visited Kibera, an area of extreme poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. There, she experienced the urgent desire children had to read, write and share their stories, and the barriers that stood in their way. She has stated that literacy is not a gift given just to some lucky