{"id":12031,"date":"2015-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/core3-789-core3.d2.worldvision.org\/media-center\/all-children-reading-a-grand-challenge-for-development-annoces-winners-of-literacy-innovations-competition"},"modified":"2017-01-19T20:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T04:05:15","slug":"all-children-reading-grand-challenge-development-announces-winners-literacy","status":"publish","type":"media-center","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/all-children-reading-grand-challenge-development-announces-winners-literacy","title":{"rendered":"All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Winners of Literacy Innovations Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[vc_row][vc_column width=”2\/3″][vc_single_image image=”13226″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]WASHINGTON, DC (February 3, 2015)<\/strong> – The All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development<\/a> (ACR GCD) partners are pleased to announce 14 new grantees<\/a> in 2015. Winners represent the most promising, creative and impactful solutions in literacy innovations and were chosen from a competitive process that elicited 213 proposals from 50 countries.<\/p>\n

“More than 250 million children across the globe cannot read or write, representing a quiet crisis that is casting entire communities into a cycle of extreme poverty,” said USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah. “Through All Children Reading, we are rallying a global community of innovators to develop groundbreaking solutions to illiteracy — and in doing so, giving the world’s most vulnerable children a chance to seize their potential.”<\/p>\n

Over the next two years, ACR GCD will follow the innovators’ progress as they implement their new idea by addressing the following three focus areas of ACR GCD Round 2:<\/p>\n

Mother tongue instruction and reading materials<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n