Hello all! Welcome to Today’s Readers Tomorrow’s Leaders’ blog. TRTL is a company dedicated to spreading literacy around the world, one book at a time. And everything comes from the joint efforts of teenagers from all across the nation. Yes, teenagers.
Here’s what we are passionate
about:
EDUCATION
We believe that every single
person (regardless of gender, race, or ability) deserves the gift of an
education. Literacy leads to more opportunities, better lives, and brighter futures.
Yet, around “30 million Americans over 16 years old cannot perform simple and
everyday literacy activities,” according to dosomething.org.
And that number is even larger in other underdeveloped countries. This is why
we are determined to improve education and literacy around the world.
How are we going to do it?
Books. Lots and lots of books. Not just regular
reading books but also educational books such as textbooks and workbooks. We
will hold book drives everywhere, like in our schools and in our communities. These
books will be sent off to different donations centers and school around the
country and around the world.
Internet. In this Information Age, there are other
untraditional ways to spread literacy, such as the Internet. That means ways
like making audio books, writing educational packets or making a blog which can
be put on our website so anyone, around the world, can access these valuable
education materials as long as there is computer available. We also plan on
raising money to buy tablets and laptops to send to poor schools so they too
can have internet access since the Internet provides a plethora of knowledge.
Community. We are a community, reaching out to other
communities. As of now, we are a tightly-knitted group of almost a hundred
enthusiastic teenagers making a difference throughout the country. We help
orphanages, schools, homeless shelters, libraries, and anywhere else where help
is needed. And to create a stronger community, we are starting a pen pal
program with schools outside the country to develop stronger relations with
these less fortunate students and understand them better.
What is this blog for?
This blog is a way of
recording our journey to improving literacy around the world and anything else
related to literacy. This was just an introductory post. In the future, you
will see posts entirely different, on different topics, by different people.
Hopefully you will enjoy the ride.
For more information on
Today’s Readers Tomorrow’s Leaders and Youth Literacy Initiative, go to www.tomorrowsleaders.webs.com
or www.literacy-initiative.org!
Make sure to sign up as a volunteer if you are interested in helping and share
your ability to read!
Thank you for reading.
Spread the word. Spread the
books. Spread the love.
