The World Literacy Foundation significantly dedicates its time and resources to conducting research, and uses resulting information to help advocate in local communities as well as on a global scale.

The World Literacy Foundation annually monitors a range of indicators in the education area and prepares a report on economic and social cost of illiteracy.

[2] It stated that one in five of the UK population is functionally illiterate and this rate costs the national economy 81 billion pounds a year in lost earnings and high welfare spending.

[3] The Oxford Declaration became the resulting document of this event; it was designed to combine efforts of government, business, non-governmental organizations and educational institutions to promote literacy worldwide.

In the African sect based in Uganda, where many people live in poverty and have no electricity the World Literacy Foundation has donated solar powered tablets.

Paired with the Sun Books initiative the World Literacy Foundation is not just donating recourses but also training to teachers at the primary school level.

[6] In the African sect with headquarters in Uganda, where many people live in poverty and have no electricity the World Literacy Foundation has donated solar powered tablets.

Paired with the Sun Books initiative the World Literacy Foundation is not just donating recourses but also training to teachers at the primary school level on how to use these resources effectively.

It is here the World Literacy Foundation has run 26 fundraising projects, book distribution drives and provides numerous services.

This gap can be measured by 30 million words, and this stretches from learners who live in poverty to those who are afforded the best education money can buy.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has declared International Literacy Day September 8 and is annually celebrated by 4,000 schools.

Held in Oxford, UK this is a three-day long event in which numerous minds gather to discuss all matters surrounding global illiteracy.

This event brings together literacy and educational leaders, specialists from governments, and inter-government bodies, for profit sectors, academic scholars and researchers.

According to studies by the World Literacy Foundation "illiterate parents tend to have lower expectations and aspirations regarding education for themselves and their children”.

Regardless of geographic location, financial situation or social status, the World Literacy Foundation believes access to education is a basic human right.

Free and appropriate access to education allows young individuals to eventually reach their full potential whether that be in the school or work setting.

[12] "Goals:To raise global literacy standards, to provide free access to quality education materials, to innovate solutions that target wide-scale illiteracy and to encourage lifelong learning.