HOLISTICA FOUNDATION INC

Our Vision is to be internationally recognised as the most effective agent of change in seeding the passion for reading.

Our Mission is to blossom the love for reading!

In terms of numbers, we seek to help 2 million poor students in Brazil to become passionate about reading, by the end of 2025.

We have one major programme to address the illiteracy issue: 1BOOK4LIFE.

1BOOK4LIFE is a monitored distribution system, which provides public school students with reading materials throughout all of Brazil. Students are given brand new literature books to take home, to read and to share with their families, friends, neighbours and classmates.

These books can change their lives. For most families in Brazil books are a luxury item. The price is too high for the average Brazilian family, thus most of the kids could go all their lives without getting a single one in their hands.

The Programme begins by selecting and inviting public schools from the most impoverished areas in Brazil. Once accepted, the school confirms the number of students attending by classroom. Every student is benefited - no student is left behind.

Our work is than to raise funds that will be used to acquire brand new books to be gifted to every single attending student.

Students from each classroom are given each a pair of new books -- every kid gets a different set of two books. This way a huge variety of books is placed in the hands of the whole group of students who can then share them with one another.

The books belong to each student who can read them, take them home and share among friends and family.

Every book, student, classroom and school are properly and uniquely identified inside the Programme´s system, allowing for monitoring and evaluation of results.

To learn more please refer to: www.1book4life.com/hf

People and systems.

Our staff is formed by very experienced people in the educational field and in monitoring and evaluation activities. Along with a strong and capable team, we developed a proprietary system to manage all our filed activities.

The good news is that our technology is being tested and applied very successfully and our constant search for improvements allowed us to have a very effective program.

The sum of experienced and capable people, a solid methodology and a reliable system is what makes us confident that we can continue doing the job and fighting the good fight to help more and more students to become passionate about reading.

We are a very new company, so it is hard to talk about achievements at this time. But even with just this small effort we were able to reach out to dozens of families and to really see and feel the results until now.

The compliments we got from some parents, students and teachers are fuelling our hopes high and are indicating that we are going on the right direction.

Every new school we are being able to benefit is reinforcing our beliefs in the effectiveness of our methodology in bringing the love of reading to the young and poor that otherwise would be forgotten and would have their life's potential wasted for pure lack of opportunity.

For 2020 we are very exited about the new strategies we are putting in place to help us raise funds to benefit 10.000 students.

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