Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white sheet on the board with a dot in the right hand corner and said, "Boys, what do you see?" And we all shouted, a black dot. He stood back and said, "not a single one of you saw the broad white sheet, you all saw the black dot." He went on to tell us to focus on the broader picture, don't focus on the negative.

literacy is at the heart of sustainable development

Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Microfinance recognizes that poor people are remarkable reservoirs of energy and knowledge