Client Spotlight: Pam Allyn

HuffPost’s Greatest Person Of The Day: Pam Allyn, Founder Of LitWorld

Literacy is not just learning the alphabet, or putting together single letters to form words, or putting together words to form sentences. Literacy is the process that makes the entire world legible, accessible and real.

Pam Allyn understands the potential power of literacy. As the founder and executive director of LitWorld, she’s dedicated her life to helping as many children in the world as possible learn to read and write: because literacy can transform a life.

Pam founded LitWorld in 2007, with the intention of spreading literacy by helping form leaders for literacy in different communities. Since 2007, they have reached over 40,000 people in at least 35 countries.

For Pam, the path into literacy education was natural. “It was always so much a part of me,” she said. “I loved to read so much and I read when I was very young and my parents read to me…that from a very young age I saw reading as a comfort and an escape and a transcendence.”

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