Paper for All is a registered non-profit/charity that aims to promote knowledge leading to development.  Paper for All focuses on improving children learning conditions by providing academic resources and tutoring to children in Burkina Faso, Africa.  The organization operates in Burkina Faso and is present in the UK, France and US.

 

At Paper for All, we strongly believe that education is one of the first steps leading to awareness and development.  This is why we targeted Burkina Faso, which is one of the most illiterate countries in the world, with a literacy rate of 24-26% (source: United Nations Development Program, Wikipedia, Unicef, CIA World Fact Book, World Bank, 2008, 2009 (1)).

But how can children acquire knowledge if they do not even have paper to write on?  It is shocking to see some children leave their families, walk hours to come to class and then having to write in the margins of the notebooks already used by their brothers and sisters.