STEP Private Client Awards

You helped raise over £67,000 in 2021.

As schools reopen after the pandemic across Africa, we face new challenges and with your support we will continue to focus on reaching the most in need young learners. Literacy resources and teacher training are at the heart of our delivery. 

2021 impact:

• Supported the Sun Books team to adapt to restrictions and reach children in Covid safe learning bubbles.
• Developed new Grandparent literacy groups so that they are equipped with the skills to support their grandchildren’s literacy at home.
• 7 new schools started their pilot phase of Sun Books in Kenya and Nigeria.
• 34 new literacy activities were developed by local teachers
• 20 new books were written by local teachers for young learners
• During the pandemic we were able to send 34 solar-powered tablets to schools in remote communities where learning resources and technology didn’t exist.
• 32 teacher training sessions were delivered during the pandemic online.

Every donation continues to help achieve 4 key aims

1. To reduce illiteracy rates in remote classrooms
2. Encourage a love of reading and writing in early childhood
3. Equip children with limited/no internet or electricity with digital learning tools.
4. Providing teachers with digital resources and training to improve educational strategies

Susy Kadam Grade 1 – 3 Teacher in Magadi Primary School, Kenya:

“Sun Books tablets are changing literacy learning culture of interactive adaptation between technology and educational practices, including pedagogy and learning outcomes have been promising. Our school was not slow to embrace it.”

Mrs. Tosin Olajubu, Primary Teacher of Ireti Girls Primary School, in Nigeria said that: “With the skills that I have acquired through the Sun Books training, I have been able to help my students who were finding it difficult identifying the English alphabet and help them to improve their literacy skills.”